The Delight Makers

The Delight Makers

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Title: The Delight Makers
Author: Adolf Bandelier

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THE DELIGHT MAKERS
by
ADOLF F. BANDELIER
With an Introduction by Charles F. Lummis
Illustrated

[Illustration: Portrait of the Author]

New York Dodd, Mead and Company Publishers Copyright, 1890 by
Dodd, Mead and Company Copyright, 1916 by Dodd, Mead and
Company, Inc. Copyright, 1918 by Mrs. Fanny R. Bandelier Printed In
U. S. A.

PREFACE
This story is the result of eight years spent in ethnological and
archæological study among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. The
first chapters were written more than six years ago at the Pueblo of
Cochiti. The greater part was composed in 1885, at Santa Fé, after I had
bestowed upon the Tehuas the same interest and attention I had

previously paid to their neighbours the Queres. I was prompted to
perform the work by a conviction that however scientific works may
tell the truth about the Indian, they exercise always a limited influence
upon the general public; and to that public, in our country as well as
abroad, the Indian has remained as good as unknown. By clothing
sober facts in the garb of romance I have hoped to make the "Truth
about the Pueblo Indians" more accessible and perhaps more acceptable
to the public in general.
The sober facts which I desire to convey may be divided into three
classes,--geographical, ethnological, and archæological. The
descriptions of the country and of its nature are real. The descriptions
of manners and customs, of creed and rites, are from actual
observations by myself and other ethnologists, from the statements of
trustworthy Indians, and from a great number of Spanish sources of old
date, in which the Pueblo Indian is represented as he lived when still
unchanged by contact with European civilization.
The descriptions of architecture are based upon investigations of ruins
still in existence on the sites where they are placed in the story.
The plot is my own. But most of the scenes described I have witnessed;
and there is a basis for it in a dim tradition preserved by the Queres of
Cochiti that their ancestors dwelt on the Rito de los Frijoles a number
of centuries ago, and in a similar tradition among the Tehuas of the
Pueblo of Santa Clara in regard to the cave-dwellings of the Puye.
A word to the linguist. The dialect spoken by the actors is that of
Cochiti for the Queres, that of San Juan for the Tehuas. In order to
avoid the complicated orthography latterly adopted by scientists for
Indian dialects, I have written Indian words and phrases as they would
be pronounced in continental languages. The letter [=a] is used to
denote the sound of a in "hare."
To those who have so kindly assisted me,--in particular to Rev. E. W.
Meany of Santa Fé, and to Dr. Norton B. Strong, of the United States
Army,--I herewith tender my heartfelt thanks.

AD. F. BANDELIER
SANTA FÉ, NEW MEXICO.
* * * * *
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The aim of our good and lamented friend in writing this book was to
place before the public, in novelistic garb, an account of the life and
activities of the Pueblo Indians before the coming of white men. The
information on which it is based was the result of his personal
observations during many years of study among the sedentary tribes of
New Mexico and in Spanish archives pertaining thereto in connection
with his researches for the Archæological Institute of America. He
spent months in continuous study at the Tehua pueblo of San Juan and
the Queres pueblo of Cochití, and the regard in which he was held by
the simple folk of those and other native villages was sincerely
affectionate. Bandelier's labors in his chosen field were commenced at
a time when a battle with hardship was a part of the