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that their capture, followed by the massacre of the prisoners, was 

 daily expected. Certain was their annihilation. 



"Again the mother god prayed to the sun to save their chil- 

 dren, and a second time the great father came to the rescue. At 

 this time he placed among them a 'knowing man,' whose name is 

 Montezuma. 



The Pueblo dancer (back view.) 



The head ornament (feathers and 

 and spruce twigs removed.) 



"Montezuma defeated the enemies, raised the siege of the caves 

 and cliffs, and drove the savages out of the narrow canyons. He 

 trained the people in the arts of war. He led them out into the 

 open country. He routed the hostile tribes in encounter after 

 encounter, and at last expelled them from the region. He in- 

 structed the people to build villages in horse-shoe shape with 

 continuous outer wall, so that they both served as places of resi- 

 dence and as fortifications. He taught them their religious rites 

 and ceremonies. He instituted the sacred hunts. He taught the 

 people to paint their houses and edifices of worship in representa- 

 tive figures of the gods. He made the column dancers the sprouters 

 of grain ; the 'funny men' the maturers of grain and of everything 

 that lives and grows upon the earth. To the god-clown dancers he 

 gave the power to represent men before the deities. To the medi- 

 cine men he gave the power over the 'sick' and over death. To the 



