The North-Americans of yesterday : $b a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the raceDellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
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The North-Americans of yesterday : $b a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the race
Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel
Indians of Mexico; Indians of North America
among the unmarried women of the Coyotero Apaches, who are said to wear
a coil something like it.
[Illustration: A NAVAJO LEADER IN NATIVE COSTUME
Figure from photograph by the U. S. Bureau of Ethnology
]
[Illustration: INTERIOR OF A MOKI HOUSE, ARIZONA
Unmarried women grinding corn; married women baking _piki_, or
“paper” bread. From a model in the National Museum
]
[Illustration: PUEBLO HEAD MAT]
Some of the Pueblo women tie their hair in a knot behind like the
Navajo women; in fact, both Navajo women and men closely resemble the
Pueblo in their dress, the reason in my opinion being that advanced
before: namely, the incorporation of Pueblo stock. The Moki men also
sometimes wear their hair like Navajos, but full-blood Navajos have
taken up their residence with the Moki, so it may be confined to these
and their children. The regular Moki method of dressing a man’s hair
is to “bang” it across the eyebrows, cut the side locks straight back
on the lower line of the ear, and gather the remainder into a knot
behind.[131] The brush used is composed of a bunch of stiff grass tied
round the middle with a string. Both Navajo and Moki men as well as
those of other tribes now wear white men’s trousers when obtainable.
The costumes worn in the various ceremonials of the Navajos, Pueblos,
Iroquois, and other Amerinds are so numerous and so varied that there
is no space in a chapter like this for a description of them.
[Illustration: NAVAJOS]
In the line of embroidery comes the beadwork, see p. 125, the
ornamentation with quills, and embroidery with yarns. I will only
mention the embroidery of the Mokis, which is done on the ends of broad
cotton sashes, with coloured yarns. This is the only form in which I
have seen it. The pattern is elaborate, and often a foot or more at
each end of a sash will be thus ornamented. The Pueblo women wore a
roll on the head on which a water-jar was balanced. Coronado mentions
this thus: “I also send two rolls, such as the women usually wear on
their heads when they bring water from the spring, the same way that
they do in Spain. One of these Indian women, with one of these rolls
on her head, will carry a jar of water up a ladder without touching it
with her hands.”[132] Some of the Pueblo women still use rings to carry
water-jars on their heads. See figure on page 151.
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