Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 438
tom of the great mesa, Hu-alpi, where the chief snake-dance is held, sixhundred and sixty feet above the plain, theyrelease the unharmed serpents. These astounding rites last from half an hourto an hour, and end only when the hot sun hasfallen behind the bald western des-ert. Then the dancersgo to… … THE MOnUI INDIAN SNAKE-DANCE. At last all rush together at the foot of theDance-rock and throw all their snakes intoa horrid heap of threatening heads and buzzingtails. I have seen that hillock of rattlesnakes afoot high and four feet across. For a momentthe dancers leap about the writhing pile,…
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