Religious Procession Leaving the Church

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $15.95

Stock #:683894
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Santo Domingo
State: New Mexico (NM)
County: Sandoval
Publisher: Detroit Publishing Co.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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As a rule a number of weddings take place on the morning of the Corn Dance. These weddings are performed in the church by the Catholic priest. After the ceremony the entire wedding party forms in a parade and proceeds to the plaza where the dance is held. The figure of the Holy Virgin is carried under a canopy and deposited in a temporary shrine on the place. The priests in their robes and vestments accompany the procession. The Pueblo Indian is an industrious and intelligent citizen, who alternately labors and then relaxes himself in games and ceremonies. His gods are innumerable - gods of harvest and of famine, of sun and rain and snow, of peace and war, etc.

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