BY CAPTAIN JOHN G. BOURKE THIRD CAVALRY, U. S. ARMY FROM THE ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES COLLECTED BY HIM UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN, U. S. ARMY IN 1881. PRIVATELY PRINTED 1920 by JOHN G. BOURKE, Captain, Third Cavalry, U. S. Army...

On the evening of November 17, 1881, during my stay in the village of Zuni, New Mexico, the Nehue-Cue , one of secret orders of the Zunis, sent word to Mr. F. Cushing (whose guest I was) that they would do us the unusual honor of coming to our house to give us one of their characteristic dances, which, Cushing said, was unprecedented. The squaws of the Governor’s family put the long “living room” to rights, sweeping the floor and sprinkling it with water to lay the dust. Soon after dark the danc