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Taos Singers
Tony Begay
Catalog No: 2001-176-76
Taos Singers
Taos singers were singing to the spirits.
They were playing a drum, it sounds like a stampede of buffalo.
The smell of sage filled the air as the drum beat in front of them.
The drum was shaped like a moon with a thick layer of deer skin.
The three men are Taos Singers,
Singing their lungs out like birds,
Almost as if they were praying for healing.
These men are wise and obedient.
Stephanie Figueroa
Hohokam Middle School
Taos Singers
Here are three men singing their lungs out like birds.
Here the drum sounds as a herd of buffalo running.
Here is a tent hot like a pot of boiling water on a stove.
Here on the tent’s floor was as cold as winter in New York.
Here the smell of smoke, smelled like sage.
Here the drum was beating like a horse’s heart after it finishes running.
Here the clothes were soft as a bear’s fur.
Stephanie Figueroa
Hohokam Middle School
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