Nazlini Canon, except for tlie difference in size, is quite as beautiful as the Grand Canon. Its col- 

 oring of gray, green, and red suggests the Painted Desert 



Through the Navaho Region' 



By H O WARD M c C R M I (^ K 



Illustrations from pliotographs by the Author 



WHE^ we think of strange 

 races of people, quite dif- 

 ferent from those about us, 

 we turn to the far limits of travel. But 

 within three days' time from Xew 

 York, we can be among people whose 

 life is as strange and as far removed 

 from our own as one possibly could 

 imagine. 



Let us take the Santa Fe railroad to 

 Gallup, New Mexico. Gallup is a char- 

 acteristic western town. The main 

 street is lined with stores of general 

 character — and has several saloons. 

 Beyond these are the trading supply 

 stores, then we pass through the resi- 

 dential district into the ]\Iexican quar- 

 ter, which dwindles into the poorer 

 quarters, thinned out to packing-box 



houses built in crevices of the rocks. 

 Still beyond we enter the characteristic 

 Arizona landscape of sage and low hills. 

 Six years ago, in order to go from 

 this point up into the Indian country, 

 we caught the mail wagon and after a 

 day's journey reached Ganado, the first 

 trading post. Now, we jump into an 

 automobile and are whisked up in four 

 hours. The country gets higher as we 

 proceed, extending into wide valleys 

 between the mesas. St. Michaels, a 

 Catholic school with its hospitable 

 priests, is the first stop, after which we 

 ride for fifteen miles through a beauti- 

 ful pine forest, as trim as though 

 artificially tended like a private estate. 

 Ganado we can find marked on the 

 ma]). l)ut in reality the place consists of 



'This trip was taken for the purpose of making sketches and obtaining materials for the Navaho group 

 which is being installed in the American Museum as a companion piece for the two habitat groups 

 already completed. The new group is ceremonial in character, depicting the interior of a hof/an, with 

 sand paintings, in which a medicine man and other Indians are going through the yeibrtxai, a ceremony 

 for healing the sick. 



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