AT ZUNI AND MOQUI PUEBLOS. 107 
li:y-la-tuk. 
Lcarninu: at the close of the Ilam-iio-neij that an inter- 
esting dance was to take phice in the distant Moqui puehlo 
of Wol-pi, 1 left Zufii on the following day and made a tri[) 
to this interesting pueblo. I was [)ai'ti(;nlarly anxious to 
sec this dance, the Ley-Ja-tuk, because of its reported 
connection with the rattlesnake dance, since it is my inten- 
tion to specially study this ceremony in some subsequent 
year. I, therefore, hurried away from Zuui to Gallup and 
with a new "outfit" took the trail via Fort Detiance and Pue- 
blo Colorado to the Moqui pueblos. I arrived under the 
shadow of the mesa upon which stands the first three Mo- 
qui towns, on the afternoon of Aug. 20, in time to witness 
parts at least of this n)ost interesting and primitive cere- 
mony. 
The ceremony on the mesa began at sundown, but on 
my arrival at the pueblo in the late afternoon, the partic- 
ipants were assembled at a sacred spring in the plain below, 
where certain preliminaries were l)cing performed. These 
I did not witness, but at a few minutes before dusk I ol)- 
served a long procession winding up the side of the mesa 
to the town of Wol-pi, the most interesting of the three 
villages on the easternmost mesa of Moqui. ^ 
About twenty i)ersons took part in the ceremony at the 
well, and a few joined the })rocession after it reached the 
mesa top. 
The line of participants marching from the spring to the 
mesa top was led by a priest who carried in his hand a 
' It is a most desirable thing to study tlie charactei- of tlie religious observ- 
ances in the Moqui towns especially in Oraibe, the one which has least been in- 
Ihienced by the Americans and Si)aniards. The Aloquis have been studied witli 
great piolit by the Stcvensons, Bourke, Stevens, Keain and others, but much yet 
remains l)cfore wo can get at tlie true signifloance of their religious ceremonials. 
There is no suliject in comparative religion which will better repay investigation 
than that of the ceremonial life of the Moquis. 
