- a variation of Moki.
Moqui
Americannoun
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Moquis,
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Moqui
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Utah may have wild Moqui Caverns, gorgeous light-filled sand caves in Kanab, but sand mining created them in the 1970s.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2020
Hearing of the Moqui pueblos, to the north of Zuñi, in July Coronado sent Tobar to find them, which he succeeded in doing.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
For a brief space the red glow grew blackened where he had fallen, but an instant later the intense heat had consumed him, and nothing remained to mark the end of the ambitious young Moqui.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Lieut. Howard Payson
There is likewise an edifice in the Pueblo of Picuris of the same class, and some of those of Moqui are also said to be similar.”13-*
From Some Observations on the Ethnography and Archaeology of the American Aborigines by Samuel George Morton
The Navaho and Moqui Indians make woollen blankets and rugs and the Pimas baskets.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
Thence he continued east to the Moquis, reaching Oraibe on July 2.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
A lower grade of Moquis doll has no limbs, but is gaily painted in stripes, and wears beads as big as its fist would be, if it had one.
From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various
The tribes residing in the Territory of Arizona are the Pimas and Maricopas, Papagoes, Mohaves, Moquis, and Orivas Pueblos, Yumas, Yavapais, Hualapais, and different bands of the Apaches.
From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker
Or was this doll left behind in a hurried flight of the Moquis village before an enemy?
From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various
Following 1680 came a great Indian revolt in New Mexico and Arizona, and thereafter the Moquis remained independent of Spanish and Christian domination, although visited fitfully by rival Jesuits and Franciscans.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
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