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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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6^0 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURXAL sunrise in the canon—as late as nine or ten o'clock—the heat precludes any further exertion. The heat of the day is spent at the "club houses"—the sweat lodges which are a part of every camp. Usually only the most popular will be in use at one time; during the morning word will pass around that Kathoda or Wodo is going to make a sweat bath. There a dozen men will gather during the after- noon, each to enter the lodge the pre- scribed number of times, the sacred four. The lodge is the usual little bee- hive structure made air-tight by its blanket covering, hardly large enough for three or four men to crouch in be- side the red-hot stones on which they sprinkle water to fill the lodge with steam. The extreme heat is terrifying in the intense blackness—but a plunge afterward from the doorway into the icy creek produces an almost ecstatic exhilaration. Then, joining others awaiting their turn outside the lodge, one stretches out on the sand, listening to the muffled songs or prayers for rain that come from the sweat house, and gossiping or discussing affairs of state with one's neighbors. Or, if you prefer, you may stroll over to Tohawoga's where there is always a group of women gambling or weaving baskets, with occasional "bronco bust- ing" for divertissement. But when the heat abates in the late afternoon, camp life suddenly springs up again; the men go off to gather in the last crops of the day, women leave to prepare the even- ing meal, and the acrid smoke begins to drift through the canon as the shad- ows lengthen. With abundant crops and a plentiful water supply the Havasupai have no fears except of rocks which may come tumbling from the heights above, and floods that infrequently pour through their canon home. Men and women till the fields as the neighboring Pueblo do, and like them, they store a year's surplus corn in the rock granaries which line the canon walls on a ledge high above the reach of floods. Deer, antelope, and mountain sheep abound on the plateau and in the gorges of the Grand Caiion. Work in skins is man's
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."iinyclla makes a dress. Work in skins is the province of the men alone; they hunt and skin the deer, tan the hides, and make the clothing, even the women's dresses (which are merely pairs of long aprons, worn back and front, and belted with a Pueblo girdle). This style of skin dress, however, as well as the men's leather leggings and shirts, is no longer in vogue, but moccasins are still made and worn

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