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RELIGION AND DRESS. 177 



ever, probably from the close intercourse wliicli tlicy have so 

 long kc23t iij) with the ]\Iexicans, are, to all apx^carance, most 

 devout Eoman Catholics. A description of, I may say, the 



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cathedral of the tribe, will be found in a subsequent chapter. 

 It is the last relic of the Papago mission of San Xavier del 

 Bac, and is situated on the Eio de Santa Cruz. 



Intercourse with the Mexicans has also much modified their 

 mode of di-ess, for the men usually wear wide straw sombreros 

 of home manufacture, moccasins, buckskin gaiters, a breech- 

 cloth of cotton, and a snow-white cotton blanket tlu'own 

 gracefully across the chest. The women wear petticoats, and 

 neither sex seems to affect ornaments or paint. The number 

 of Tillages scattered throughout the land of the Papagos is 

 about nineteen, and 'the population of the entire tribe probably 

 reaches fom- thousand, of which three thousand live north of 

 the Mexican boundary line, and perhaps one thousand south 

 of it. So effectually do the warriors protect their homes that 



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