54 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 
for food but their feathers were in great demand 
for clothing. A certain amount of hunting was also 
done, for the bones found indicate that deer and 
lesser animals were used for food. 
The food of course had to be prepared and served. 
Each woman probably made her own dishes of clay. 
Such skill and art as are displayed in the pottery of the 
Southwest. are not easily acquired. The girls must have 
been educated by frequent instruction and practice in 
the art. Clothing seems to have been made by the time 
consuming methods of hand manufacture: the prepara- 
tion of the fibers, either of cotton or yucca, spinning by 
hand, and the slow building up of a web of cloth by 
adding thread to thread in a primitive loom. The 
houses needed a certain amount of care, especially 
those built in the open places. The roofs had to be kept 
tight and the walls plastered and protected from rain. 
In some instances there seems to have been constant 
additions of rooms to these community structures. In 
other cases the entire population moved away and built 
again. 
Those who believe the occupation in the Southwest 
to have been of short duration and that the population 
at any one time was not great might estimate for us the 
number of working hours required to build all the known 
structures and make all the pottery of which we have 
remains. | | 
With all this busy industrial life we know there was 
time for the making of many ornaments; and there are 
reasons to believe that games and sports were engaged 
in and that ceremonies of some sort were performed. 
In short, life was not particularly different from that 
observed in the Southwest later by the Spaniards and 
which may still be witnessed at Zuni or on the Hopi 
mesas. It may be added that in contrast with the North 
