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manner of stitching, by using different-colored material, and by sewing 

 on strips of soft, white buckskin, to the lower end of which are attached 

 the small hoofs of deer or bits of tin rolled up. (Fig. 23.) The method 

 of carrying burdens among the Apaches is shown in the next figure, of 

 a woman bearing the cradle frame hung to the top of her head. Note 

 here the position of the strap high up on the head, as suggesting the 

 inquiry whether various uses and abuses of the head may not have con- 

 tributed to its deformation. (Fig. 24.) 



Zuni Woman sotporting a jae of water. 



(From a photograph in the U. S. National Museum.) 



Fig. 20. 

 Head or Milkmaid's Pads. 



(Cat. No. 40466, U. S. N. M. Pnebln Indians, Ariz 

 Mexico. Collected by James Stevenson. 



Before passing southward it is well to consider the habits of the In- 

 dians east of the Rocky Mountains. No less than their western neigh- 

 bors were they formerly accustomed to carry heavy burdens, For this 



