. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 1.—Sia womeu on their way to tlic traders to dispost; of pottery. looks to the wants of its own, and there is apparent indifference to thesufferings of neighbors. When questioned, they reply: We feel sadfor our brothers and our sisters, but we have not enough for our , when driven to extremes, nature asserts itself in the nearest tiesof consanguinity and the clan becomes secondary. At these timesthere are no expressions of dissatisfaction and no attempt on the partof the stronger to take a
. Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . Fig. 1.—Sia womeu on their way to tlic traders to dispost; of pottery. looks to the wants of its own, and there is apparent indifference to thesufferings of neighbors. When questioned, they reply: We feel sadfor our brothers and our sisters, but we have not enough for our , when driven to extremes, nature asserts itself in the nearest tiesof consanguinity and the clan becomes secondary. At these timesthere are no expressions of dissatisfaction and no attempt on the partof the stronger to take advantage of the weaker. The expression ofthe men changes to a stoical resignation, and the womens faces growa shade paler with the thought that in order to nourish their babesthey themselves must be uoiirished. And yet, sucli is their code ofhospitality that food is always offered to guests as long as a morselremains. BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. Ill. SISTERS; CLEVEREST ARTISTS IN CERAMICS IN SIA. STEVENSON.) BARTER. 13 So like children are these same stoical and patient people that thetears of sorrow are quickly dispelled by the sunshine of success. Whentheir c^ops are gathered they hold their saints day feast, when theIndians from near and far (even a few of the unfriendly Indians lend-ing their unwelcome presence) snrfeit at their board. These publicdances and feasts of thanksgiving in honor of tlieir patron saint, uponthe gathering of theii crops, which occur in all the Rio Grandepueblos, present a queer mixture of pagan and Christian religion. Thepriest owes his success in maintaining a certain intluence with thesepeople since the accession of New Mexico to the United States, by non- f
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