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Table 27. — Shonto individual income compared with total Navaho individual 



income, 1955 



I. OVERALL COMPARISON 



1955 income 



Percentage of all Navaho income 



1955 population..- 



Percentage of all Navaho population. 



Mean per capita income 



Mean size of households (number)... 



Number of households 



Percentage of all Navaho households 

 Mean household income 



Shonto 



$165, 551 



.46 



668 



.71 



$291 



5.68 



100 



.70 



$1, 656 



All Navaho 



$35, 978, 674 



100. 00 



1 80. 000 



100. 00 



$450 



5.60 



14, 286 



100.00 



$2, 520 



n. COMPARISON BY SOURCES 



» Estimate by Navaho Tribal Census Office, 1955. 

 2 See table 21. 

 » See table 26. 



wage income. The correspondingly high income from livestock is 

 to some extent an indication of the grazing committee's failure to 

 enforce capacities. 



Mean household income for the Navaho tribe in general has been 

 estimated at over $2,500 (table 27), or nearly $1,000 in excess of the 

 Shonto figure. Some of the income estimates upon which this calcu- 

 lation is based are almost certainly too high, as in the case of crafts 

 noted above. The figure for total agricultural income (including that 

 from livestock) is only slightly lower than estimated income from 



