Dancer holding up the Great Plumed Arrow .358 Dancer "swallowing" the Great Plumed Arrow . 359 Navajo Woman weaving a Belt ...360 Navajo Woman spinning ....361 A Room in a Zuñi House ....362 Ashtishkee, a Navajo Chief ....365 Navajo Medicine Lodge, viewed from the South . . 366 Navajo Medicine Lodge, viewed from the East . . 367 Navajo Fire Dance ......368 Workshop of Navajo Silversmith ...369 Zuñi Woman weaving a Belt ....370 Weaving of Diamond-shaped Diagonals .371 Zuñi Fetiches .......372 Effigy Pottery from Zuñi ....373 Zuñi Pottery .......374 XIV CANYONS OF THE COLORADO. PAGE Zuñi Grails .......375 Culinary Pottery from Zuñí . . . . . . 376 Navajo Fabrics ......377 The Grand Canyon ......378 A Gable with Pinnacles ....381 Niches or Panels in the Red Wall Limestone .382 Bounded Inward Curves and Projecting Cusps of the Walls ...384 The Eastern Temple ......387 The Western Temple .....388 Granite Falls, Kaibab Division, Grand Canyon . . 391 Dikes in the Canyon Wall ....392 Pinnacles of the Kaibab .....395 Vishnu's Temple ......396 Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime, looking East, between 396 and ...397 Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime, looking West, between ...396 and ...397 Key to the Panorama from Point Sublime, looking South, between ...396 and ...397 Grand Canyon at the Foot of the Toroweap, looking East, between ...396 and ...397 The Great Unconformity at the Head of the Grand Canyon, between ...396 and ...397 16 powell-canyons-1.jpg THE COLORADO RIVER. 17 CANYONS OF THE COLORADO. CHAPTER I. THE VALLEY OF THE COLORADO. THE Colorado River is formed by the junction of the Grand and Green. The Grand River has its source in the Rocky Mountains, five or six miles west of Long's Peak. A group of little alpine lakes, that receive their waters directly from perpetual snowbanks, discharge into a common reservoir known as Grand Lake, a beautiful sheet of water. Its quiet surface reflects towering cliffs and crags of granite on its eastern shore, and stately pines and firs stand on its western margin. The Green River heads near Fremont's Peak, in the Wind River Mountains. This river, like the Grand, has its sources in alpine lakes fed by everlasting snows. Thousands of these little lakes, with deep, cold, emerald waters, are embosomed among the crags of the Rocky Mountains. These streams, born in the cold, gloomy solitudes of the upper mountain region, have a strange, eventful history as they pass down through gorges, tumbling in cascades and cataracts, until they reach the hot, arid plains of the Lower Colorado, where the waters that were so clear above empty as turbid floods into the Gulf of California.