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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 



."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 



