The Indians of The Painted Desert Region WORKS BY George Wharton James IN AND AROUND THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO RIVER IN ARIZONA. THE INDIANS OF THE PAINTED DESERT REGION. THE MISSIONS AND MISSION INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. INDIAN BASKETRY. [Illustration: IN THE HEART OF THE PAINTED DESERT.] The Indians of the Painted Desert Region _Hopis_, _Navahoes_, _Wallapais_, _Havasupais_ By George Wharton James Author of "In and Around the Grand Canyon," etc. [Illustration] _With Numerous Illustrations from Photographs_ Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1903 _Copyright, 1903_, BY EDITH E. FARNSWORTH _All rights reserved_ Published October, 1903 UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. _To my Wife_ CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTORY xiii CHAPTER I. THE PAINTED DESERT REGION 1 II. DESERT RECOLLECTIONS 10 III. FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE HOPI 29 IV. THE HOPI VILLAGES AND THEIR HISTORY 44 V. A FEW HOPI CUSTOMS 66 VI. THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE HOPI 82 VII. THE HOPI SNAKE DANCE 102 VIII. THE NAVAHO AND HIS HISTORY 124 IX. THE NAVAHO AT HOME 138 X. THE NAVAHO AS A BLANKET WEAVER 160 XI. THE WALLAPAIS 172 XII. THE ADVENT OF THE WALLAPAIS 188 XIII. THE PEOPLE OF THE BLUE WATER AND THEIR HOME 199 XIV. THE HAVASUPAIS AND THEIR LEGENDS 209 XV. THE SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE HAVASUPAIS 220 XVI. THE HAVASUPAIS' RELIGIOUS DANCES AND BELIEFS 248 BIBLIOGRAPHY 265 _ILLUSTRATIONS_ In the Heart of the Painted Desert. _Frontispiece_ A Son of the Desert. _Vignette on Title_ In the Heart of the Petrified Forest. _Facing page_ xvi A Freak of Erosion in the Petrified Forest. " " 2 Journeying over the Painted Desert to the Hopi Snake Dance. " " 2 Ancient Pottery dug from Prehistoric Ruins on the Painted Desert. " " 8 The Painted Desert near the Little Colorado River. " " 16 Asleep, Early Morning, on the Painted Desert. " " 16 The Colorado River at Bass Ferry, the Vampire of the Painted Desert. " " 22 Hano, (Tewa) from the Head of the Trail. " " 34