Crossing the Desert below Chimney Butte 58 The Oraibi Wash in Flood-Time Navajo on Their Way to a Dance 70 A Navajo Hogan and Its Blanket Loom Outfit of a Well-Digger, the Desert “Water-Witch” 84 Drying Bed of the Little Colorado River The Hopi Ceremonial Corn-Planting 92 Hopi Gardens in a Spring-Fed Nook of the Desert Hopi Indian Agency at Keams Cañon 106 Hopi Indian Hospital at Keams Cañon A Busy Day at the Trading-Post, Keams Cañon 118 Ready for the 105-Mile Trek to the Railroad Hostin Nez, Navajo Chief and Medicine Man 124 Judge Hooker Hongave of the Indian Court 132 Youkeoma, Antelope Priest and Prophet 162 A Mesa Road—Old Trail to Hotevilla 170 A Pretentious Home at Hotevilla A Hopi Schoolgirl 178 A Hopi Youth Who Is Preparing for College The Walpi Headland, Seen from the Orchards 196 The Walpi Stairway, A Rock-Ladder to the Sky 202 The Author, in the Enchanted Desert 230 Old Glory and the Bond Flag at the Agency Albert Yava: Interpreter 234 Tom Pavatea: Hopi Merchant and Patriot The Corn Rock, an Ancient Bartering-place 238 Opening the Walpi Snake Dance 250 Dramatic Entry of the Snake Priests The Gatherer, Handling a Rattlesnake 266 A Patriarch of Snakes The Chief Snake-Priest 272 The Enchanted Desert and the Moqui Buttes 282 In the Twin-Butte Country 294 Silversmith Jim: a Typical Navajo Billa Chezzi: Chief of the Northern Navajo 316 Nelson Oyaping: Tewa Chief of Police A Navajo Boy Who Has Never Been to Any School 322 A Hopi Range-Rider 336 Blue Cañon: A Study in Blue-and-White A Hopi Shrine 338 A Hopi Weaver of Ceremonial Robes A Katchina Dance Hopi Mother in Gala Dress, with Her Child 340 Navajo Mother with Child in Cradle A New Son of the Desert 344 Hopi Girls Arrayed for a Dance Hopi Wedding Costume 352 A Hopi Beauty 358 INDIANS OF THE ENCHANTED DESERT I NOLENS VOLENS It is well for a man to respect his own vocation, whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves. —Charles Dickens