hough] ANTIQUITIES OF GILA-SALT VALLEYS 21 



The dress of the upper Tularosa people consisted of a jacket made 

 of feathered cord secured by a woven band, a loin band made up of 

 numerous cords forming a bundle with ends hanging down front 

 and back, and sandals. Skirts like those found on the Blue river 

 were also worn, probably by women. Large robes of fur cord formed 

 a wrapping for the whole body. 



Sandals in great variety occur here and in the cavern back of the 

 row of houses there was a veritable museum of cast-off footwear and 

 other personal rejects. There are two general classes, viz, the sole 

 sandal for summer wear, made of yucca strips or woven from fiber, 

 and large shoes of basket work stuffed with shredded grass and 

 wound at the ankle with feather cord. With the sandals also 

 occurred squares of coarse woven bast cloth — used, it is believed, to 

 wrap the feet like the duffel socks worn in the Hudson Bay territory. 

 This may be regarded as the costume of the mountain Indians, one 

 which clearly gives evidence of the reaction of the environment upon 

 human arts. 



Connected also with costume in this locality are pouches of skin — 

 sometimes tanned and sometimes of the natural pelt — which were 

 carried about the person ; of these a number were found, as well as 

 small pliable baskets of similar use. In several instances hair 

 brushes of grass stems, like those used by the existing Pueblos, were 

 found. 



HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS 



Some insight into the domestic life of the Gila tribes may also be 

 gained through the remains from both pueblos and cliff-houses. 

 From the former are secured objects of durable materials connected 

 with the preparation, cooking, and serving of food — small mortars 

 and pestles; metates and manos; vessels for mixing, cooking, and 

 holding food, for containing salt and small portions of the meal, 

 and for transporting, storing, and distributing water. From the 

 latter come torches of reed, splints, and bark; baskets for various 

 purposes; gourd vessels; matting of yucca and tide; carrying nets 

 of yucca leaves; hooks; sticks for parching corn, and for various 

 other household purposes; hafted stone knives; and platters of bark. 

 The inhabitants possessed bed heaps, rudely constructed, though 

 in a definite manner, of softened grass inclosed in a mat-like net of 

 yucca leaves. Bundles of grass leaves served as pillows. The baby 

 was placed on a skin laid over an ovate mat of tule bound on the 

 edges. 



Bundles of corn blades neatly folded over and tied and new corn 

 ears strung on cord hung about the cliff-houses in secure places, while 

 beans and maize ears were put into jars or mat baskets out of the reach 



