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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 'JJ 



The young men are qualifying as artisans and necessarily the work 

 entails a permanent absence from the pueblos. Most of them are 

 employed in the mechanical work of the Santa Fe railroad. They 



Fig. 87. — A combination of old and new. Hopi Indian. 



Walpi, Arizona. 



receive large wages and are much esteemed for their skill. The result 

 of this on the integrity of pueblo life is on the eve of becoming dis- 

 astrous, as the older people are left on their own resources without 

 able help. This phase in the history of the Hopi was unexpected as a 

 disintegrating element. No one suspected that the Hopi would be 



