TARAIIUMARI INDIANS. I &3 
customs, and living in caves in the rocks 
or under the huge bowlders, or in cliffs 
high up the almost perpendicular faces 
of the rock, where they probably tend a 
few goats and plant their corn on steep 
slopes, using pointed sticks to make the 
holes in the ground into which the grains 
are deposited. 
In appearance the Tarahumari savage 
is, I think, a little above the average 
height of our own Indians in the South¬ 
west. They are well built, and very mus¬ 
cular, while the skin of the cave and 
cliff dweller is of the darkest hue of any 
American native I have ever seen, being 
almost a mixture of the Guinea negro with 
the average copper-colored aborigine that 
we are so accustomed to see in the west¬ 
ern parts of the United States. The 
civilized Tarahumaris are generally no- 
