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and bodies in the task. I have seen women thus em- 
ployed when the thermometer stood at 110°, while 
their lords lay stretched out at length on their backs 
looking on. 
Water is invariably brought by the women in large 
earthen vessels upon their heads resting upon a small 
cushion. Some of these vessels hold six gallons. This 
mode of carrying burdens, by which the body is kept 
in a perfectly erect position, tends greatly to develope 
the chest and add to the general beauty of the figure. 
Hence we see among the Indians, as well as among the 
lower class of Mexicans, forms which Walker might 
well have taken for models in his ‘‘ Analysis of Beauty 
in Women.” 
As the manners and customs of the Pimos and 
Coco-Maricopas are the same, with the exception of 
their rites of burial, I shall include both in describing 
these customs; although there is little doubt but that 
the knowledge of the arts which they possess originated 
with the Pimos. Cotton is raised by them,* which 
they spin and weave. Their only manufactures consist 
of blankets of various textures and sizes; a heavy cloth 
of the same material used by the women to put around 
their loins; and an article from three to four inches 
wide, used as a band for the head, or a girdle for the 
waist. The blankets are woven with large threads, 
slightly twisted and without any nap. They are made 
of white cotton, and are without ornament of colors oF 
figures, save a narrow selvage of buff. 
* Ibrought home with me the seeds with samples of this cotton, 
which was pronounced equal to the best Sea Island. The seeds I dis 
tributed among various planters. 
