THE PUEBLO OF SANTO DOMINGO, NEW MEXICO [SOLD]

THE PUEBLO OF SANTO DOMINGO, NEW MEXICO

Leslie A. White

Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association, Menasha, Wisconsin

Softcover, first edition 1935, 210 pages, illustrated

Ex Libris of San Francisco Theological Seminary

Book in very good condition, cover has tears on spine

From the Introduction

“The data for this paper were collected on several field trips over a period of years.  To the reader unfamiliar with the pueblos of New Mexico it should be said hat in most of them it is utterly impossible to do ethnological work in the open. . . .these pueblos are very strongly opposed to telling outsiders anything pertaining to their customs and beliefs.  Santo Domingo is one of the most conservative of all the pueblos and is bitterly opposed to telling white people, ethnologists above all, anything.

The data in this paper were secured from three adult male Domingo Indians.  They received good wages for their services. But no amount of money alone would induce them to talk if they did not have confidence in the investigator. The drawings of masks, altars, etc. and the diagrams of ceremonies were all made by informants.