--- title: The Moki Indians — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: The Moki Indians, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Moki Indians live in pueblos the same as the Zuñi people. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/18/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / The Moki Indians # The Moki Indians The Moki Indians of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 22 sentences and 400 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. The Moki Indians live in pueblos the same as the Zuñi people.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") Their name is also spelled Moqui and Hopi.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") The Moki pueblo of Walpi is in Arizona.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") It is at the end of a mesa or plateau which rises abruptly seven hundred feet above the desert.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") It is here that the great snake dance is held each alternate autumn.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The Moki weave blankets and cloth for dresses, which they exchange with other Pueblos for ponies, turquoise beads, and silver ornaments for neck or hair.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") The Moki maidens, like those of a few other tribes, do not leave their straight black hair hanging down their backs.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") These maidens put up their locks in huge puffs over each ear.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") These puffs are to represent squash blossoms.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The married women braid their hair and sometimes fasten it in a knot at the back of the head.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") All the water used in this elevated pueblo is carried up the seven hundred feet in clay ollas by the women.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") It is like a scene in Asia to see them gathered at evening about the springs at the foot of the mesa.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The Mokis are a very devout people, and their young men are taught daily in the kivas, or secret rooms, by the wise old men all the sacred rites and wisdom of their fathers.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") Among the Mokis the kiva, or estufa, as the Spanish call it, is underground; among the Zuñis it is above the ground, but entered at the top by a ladder.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") In it is a sacred flat altar, usually surrounded by prayer-sticks called bahos.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") These sticks have a feather fastened at the top, to show that prayer rises.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") These bahos are always planted two or three times a year by the water ways, to do reverence to the water god who shows himself in the lightning.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") They believe a serpent is the form lightning takes when on earth; hence the pictures of these on the prayer-sticks, and sometimes on the sides of rocks.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") There is an order of nuns among the Pueblos called Ko-Ko.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") These go to the springs in the early morning and place the bahos in the banks, so that rain may come on the corn, beans, and pumpkins which have been planted.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") No one dares to remove one baho.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") The Moki Indians have stories of Coronado’s people, who battled with them in 1540.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Indians Who Live in Brick Houses](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/17/) - next →: [Dakota or Sioux](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/19/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)