Idolatrous Arizonians

There is a small tribe of Indians in Southern Arizona who are idolators. They are in reality sun worshipers, but make small images out of clay with faces supposed to represent the sun, although bearinj little if any resemblance to it. They do not associate with other tribes, and are very rarely seen by white men. The idols have large round bodies and lieads, with eyes and mouth and ears, beams radiating from the eyes over the face. The Indians have these in their rude houses or wigwams, and at certain seasons they hold a sun dance, which is with them a religious ceremony. They have no other form of worship, although a few of them were at one time induced to abandon their idols by the works of the Jesuits.