eir very own were referred to dealers in Americana, who searched for
this already rare volume; and many were proud to get it, at last, at
ten, fifteen and even twenty times its original price. It will always be
a standard--the most photographic story yet printed of the life of the
prehistoric Americans.

CHARLES F. LUMMIS.

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ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of the Author _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
The East End of the Canon of the Tyuonyi 8
A Modern Indian Dance 18
An Estufa 18
Rito de los Frijoles: Cavate Rooms in Cliff; Ruins
of Talus Pueblo at the Foot of Cliff 38
A Westerly Cliff of the Habitations of the Tyuonyi,
Showing Second and Third Story Caves, and
Some High Lookout Caves 70
A Navajo Hogan 88
The Heart of the Tyuonyi: The Excavated Lower
Story of the Great Terraced Communal House 88
Rito de los Frijoles: A Cliff Estufa of the Snake-Clan 116
The Dance of the Ayash Tyucotz 140
Indian Pueblo Dances of To-day: Lining Up for the
Dance; The "Clowns" 164
Type of Old Indian Woman 186
Juanico: A Member of the Modern Village-Council 224
The Hishtanyi Chayan, or Chief Medicine Man 256
Looking Out from One of the Weathered Cave-Rooms
of the Snake-Clan 320
Rito de los Frijoles: Looking Out from the Ceremonial
Cave 384
Ruins of an Ancient Pueblo 472
A Modern Pueblo 486

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THE DELIGHT MAKERS

CHAPTER I.

The mountain ranges skirting the Rio Grande del Norte on the west,
nearly opposite the town of Santa Fe, in the Territory of New Mexico,
are to-day but little known. The interior of the chain, the Sierra de
los Valles, is as yet imperfectly explored. Still, these bald-crested
mountains, dark and forbidding as they appear from a distance, conceal
and shelter in their deep gorges and cle