289 ‘NAVAJO HOUSE-BUILDING—SHUFELDT. | a | 
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Often groups of these Indians have watched the erection of a large : 
two-storied house built with these bricks, and yet I have never heard — 
any of them say that it was their intention to use the same kind of | 
materials in building their own houses. There are two things which 
probably deter them from doing this, and from following the example 
of the white man, one of which is the dread of criticism, and the other a 
fear, perhaps, of exciting his jealousy and being prohibited the use of — 
such material. Were they to attempt to erect houses of brick, I think 
they would doubtless succeed. 
