- a variation of Moki.
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
Copy of a photograph of three Moqui Indians from the Pueblo of Oraybi, delegated to visit the Mormon president for the purpose of encouraging trade.
From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.
Mission work, and to spare, would interest you at a Moqui Pueblo, and I can recommend one whose primeval, idyllic repose dwells in my memory like an eclogue of Virgil's.
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
It has been stated that the Moqui Indians handle the rattlesnake with impunity, and are not inconvenienced by its occasional bite.
From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Allen, Martha Meir
They looked about, using the knowledge they had gained from being with the cowboy the time they filmed the pictures of the Moqui Indians.
From The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]
Army, author of "The Snake Dance of the Moquis," etc. 8vo, 496pp., cloth, gilt top, uncut.
From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled
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 little Moquis girls have wooden dolls of different sizes and degrees.
From Indian Stories Retold From St. Nicholas by Various
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
Jeffries Mayberry, seeking a convenient spot from which to keep up his surveillance over his Moquis, had stumbled upon it by accident, and with an old woodsman's skill had rendered it quite habitable.
From The Boy Scouts On The Range by Payson, Lieut. Howard
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