A Feast Day at Acoma (1904)
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Portfolio XVI plate 565

"Franciscan missionaries early in the seventeenth century introduced certain public Christian rites among the Pueblos, which ever since have been performed, with an intermingling of native ceremonial practices, especially on the days of the saints to whose protection the villages were respectively assigned. The day of San Estevan, patron saint of Acoma, is September second." -Curtis

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