AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE STEPS [SOLD]

AMERICAN INDIAN DANCE STEPS

By Bessie Evans and May G. Evans of the Peabody Conservatory of Music

Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Company New York, 1931

First edition, hardcover with jacket.

Introduction by Frederick Webb Hodge

Illustrated in color by Poyege, San Ildefonso Indian. Eight color plates and many line drawings

CONTENTS

Part One: Prologue

Part Two: Some Characteristic Indian Dance Steps

                        Elements of the Dance

                        Abbreviations, etc.

                        A Highly Characteristic Movement

                        The Skip

                        The Jump

                        Jumping on Both Feet Simultaneously (Apache Devil Dance Step)

                        A Jump from One Foot to the Other

                        A Hop Step

                        A Step from the “Snowbird” Dance

                        A “Comanche” Step

                        A Tap Step

                        A Turn with Taps

                        A “Two-step” or War-Dance Step

                        An Indian Form of the Pas de Bourrée

                        A Sioux Step

                        A Hopi Step

Part Three: Examples of Indian Dance of the Southwest

                        Eagle Dance

                        War Dance

                        Sun Dance

                        Matachines

                        A Yeibichai Dance Fragment

                        Dog Dance

                        Index

Original Paintings in Color by Poyege (Tony Peña), San Ildefonso Indian

                        Dog Dancer

                        Eagle Dancer

                        War Dancer

                        Sun Dancer

                        Matachines Dancer

                        A Minor Divinity in the Yeibichai Dance

                        Man and Woman in Dog Dance

                        Indian Drummer

From the FOREWORD

            The following study of American Indian dance is concerned chiefly with elements of the art, observed in certain Pueblo tribes of New Mexico—especially those of San Ildefonso, Tesuque, Santa Clara, Cochiti, and Santo Domingo. 

            The greater part of the material was first presented by the authors, on their return East from the Indian regions, in the form of lecture-recitals at the American Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Yale University.