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fine specimen of double weaving." It is of tightly twisted cotton 

 thread in dark blue, red, yellow, and white. The fringe 1 breads are 

 braided togetiier so that two colors are united in each strand. 



The other belt, no. 178910, is also double, and woven in dark blue, 

 light blue, buff, red, and white.* 



The a]>andoninent of the art of weaving these simple fabrics with 

 their tasteful patterns is unfortunate. Their loss is relieved by no 

 compensatory improvement in other directions." 



ARCHITECTURE 



In their natural state the Pimas built dwellings of four different 

 types besides a storehouse. First in importance is the round, flat- 

 roofed ki, which resembles an overturned wash basin in shape. 

 Notwithstanding the fact that some have declared that the Piman 

 ki suggests the pueblo style of architecture and should therefore be 

 admitted as eWdence of rehitionship between the Ilohokam and 

 Pimas, the author must confess that he has been unable to detect 

 the remotest resemblance to the pueblo type. On the contrary, 

 analogies may be found with the dwellings of tribes nuich farther 

 distant from Pimeria. The ki is built by the men, who gather in 

 parties of ten or fifteen for the purpose — a custom which affords 

 another instance of a different division of labor from that in vogue 

 among the Pueblos, as with them the house building is the work of 

 women.'' Though the Pimas have had an example of pueblo struc- 

 ture at their very doors ever since they have inhabited the Gila 

 valley, in the noble Casa Grande, the walls of which yet rise 30 feet 

 above the plain, and have seen the adobe buildings of the Spaniards 

 and Mexicans for three hundred and hfty years, nevertheless they 

 have continued to construct houses of the simplest type that are but 

 little better than temporary shelters. The first Piman adobe house 

 was built by the head chief, Antonio Azid, twenty-two years ago, 

 and since that time the people have made very commendable prog- 

 ress. Some villages — such, for example, as Blackwater — now contain 

 few dwellings that are not of adobe. However, there are others, 

 such as Ska'kaik, that retain the old-time ki. As an inducement 

 toward progress, the Indian Department or its authorized agent has 

 stipulated that a man nuist cut off his long hair and build an adobe 

 house before he may receive a wagon from the Government. The 



" Length. 2 m.; width. Gcin.; length of fringe, 1.5cm. 



*> Length, 2.0.'t m.: width, 05 mm. The fringe is 20 cm. in length and neatly braided. 



<^ Frobel, who \isited the Pimas half a century ago. .says of their \vea\'ing. ■■ Man wiirde sieh alierirren 

 wean man glaubte, dass diese Kiinste durch die Bekehrung zum Chri.stenthum befordert worden seien. 

 Im Gegentheile sind sie dadurch in Verfall gerathen. denn bei den heidnischen Pimas findet man die- 

 selben in einem hoheren Grade von Vollknrnmenheit." -Viis .\merika, ii. 440. 



d It is worthy of note that the southern California Coahuilla [Kawia] similarly differ from other 

 American Indi ins. In that tribe, also, the houses (jacals) are built by the men. See D. P. Bar- 

 rows in American Anthropologist, n. 8., 1901, HI, 755. 



