The snake-dance of the Moquis of Arizona

"ALTHOUGH vague rumours had from time to time reached me of the peculiar ceremonies to be noticed among the Moquis, I had paid but slight attention to them, as they came from mining prospectors and others of the same genus, who delight in the marvellous; and I first heard with certainty of the rattle-snake-dance of this strange people from my old friend Mr. William Leonard, then trader at the Navajo Indian Agency, Fort Defiance, Arizona."