30 A MAID OF WOLPAI—SHUFELDT. 
fairly entered in the matrimonial market. She can bake, sew, dye, 
card, weave, and spin; her nimble fingers fashion the plastic clays_ 
into every shape needed for use or ornament; the tender shoots of the 
willows or the pliable roots of the grasses roaWene to her fairy touch | 
and round themselves into beautiful baskets, vivid with coloring and 
repeating the sacred emblems of the butterfly, deer, or thunder-bird. ; 
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In the number of stews, ragouts, and broths which she knows how 
to compound of the flesh of the kid or sheep, and such vegetables as 
the onion, bean, and aromatic chile; or in the endless diversity of hom- 
iny, mush, pop corn, and piki bread, she will hold her own with the 
most ingenious American housewife. 
The most striking feature about the girl in our plate is the manner 
in which she does up her hair. This is the custom of the young un- — 
married women, for the Wolpai maiden considers herself a woman | 
grown at 15. They accomplish this remarkable feat in the toilet 
by wrapping their hair over some pliable switches of either willow or 
cottonwood, which latter have been previously wound round with blue 
yarn to keep them in place. Then next her head, the base of the whorl 
is also wound around to keep the whorl in proper shape. She also © 
parts her hair in the middle, and wears two heavy locks, one over each ~ 
temple, which hang down and are cut square off below, on a level with 
the nostrils. This girl as will be seen has quite a pretty face, and the 
great whorls of hair over her ears at the side of her head, are after all 
not so very unbecoming. | 
The hair is done up with especial care on all gala days, and upon such 
occasions in Moqui, Bourke says, ‘“‘the young maidens of the villages © 
were out in full force, decked in the most gorgeous finery of native — 
manufacture, their freshly cleaned tresses of raven black were done up 
in flat, circular coils one over each ear, the general effect being to make 
them Leanne the Chinese.” * 
In another place of the same work just quoted (pp. 117, 118), Bourke . 
adds to the above statement that the ‘“ Moquis call themselves Hopii — 
or Opii, a term not now in the language of everyday life, but referring | 
in some way to the pueblo custom of. banging the hair at the level of the — 
eyebrows. This mode of wearing the hair distinguishes them from the 
Apaches, Utes, and Navajos, and, as Lochi wished me to bear in mind, | 
Showed that they were once ‘todos los mismos’ with the Mohaves, | 
Yumas, Maricopas, and other bands of Arizona, whose practice of © 
banging the hair is in such curious contrast with the loose, unkempt 
manner of wearing it peculiar tothe Apaches. Now among numerous 
photographs of girls of Moqui and Wolpai none of them have the hair 
banged across the level of the eyebrows, but it is invariably arranged — 
* Snake dance of the Mokis, p. 114. That these coils are flat is an error quite com- 
monly made, and that they are not always so may be seen from the plate in the present — 
paper. All the published figures ever seen by the writer of the young unmarried — 
Moqui women have the coils too small, too flat, and altogether too much like circular | 
disks of wood. . 
