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CHARLES FREDERICK HOLDER. 
Charles Irederick Holder, revered by sports¬ 
men thoughout the world, died on October tenth, 
at his home in Pasadena, California. Mr. Holder 
is known to every reader of Forest and Stream, 
through his writing during the past decade. Be¬ 
sides being a writer of note Mr. Holder, was an 
ardent enthusiast and worker in the matter of 
fish and game conservation and propagation. He 
was a member of the National Geographical 
Society, Linnaean Society, Academy of Sciences. 
Los Angeles Society for Protection of Game 
American Fisheries Society, American Scenic and 
Prevention Society, National Conservation Soci¬ 
ety, American Game Protective and Propagation 
Society, Audubon Society of California and Los 
Angeles Zoological Society. Mr. Holder’s writ¬ 
ings include more than fifty books that not only 
are classics but the accepted authority on the 
subjects they cover. As founder of the Tuna 
Club at Catalina he developed what now is the 
first sport among big game fishermen. Charles 
Frederick Holder will be mourned by every real 
sportsman in America. Elsewhere in this issue 
appears what is probably the last work from the 
pen of this noted writer. 
In the passing of Dr. Chas. F. Holder the out¬ 
door world loses one of its most charming 
writers; science loses a distinguished mem¬ 
ber, and the whole world is poorer in conse¬ 
quence. Dr. Holder’s long connection with 
Forest and Stream makes his death doubly re¬ 
gretful to readers of this journal, every one of 
whom, had grown not only to admire but to love 
a contributor who, in exact knowledge and wealth 
of vocabulary, has had no superior since the days 
of Isaak Walton. Dr. Holder will live in the 
many beautiful books he has given us. That his 
memory will be perpetual has also been made 
certain through the subscription of $ 50,000 by 
a group of his friends to be used for an en¬ 
dowment chair of biology at the Throop College 
of Technology at Pasadema. 
NAVAJO INDIAN RUGS. 
Navajo Indian rugs are woven by hand of 
sheep’s wool in fascinating designs and color¬ 
ings. They are the only hand-wrought floor cov¬ 
erings made by a primitive people in the United 
States. 
The Navajo Indian Reservation is situated in 
northwestern New Mexico and northeastern 
Arizona, and has an area almost equal to that 
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut 
together.^ The Indians live in isolated houses, or 
Slogans, ’ built of stones, mud and twisted cedar 
boughs, and here the famous “blankets” are 
woven. There are no towns or villages, for 
the people are not gregarious, and though the 
tribe numbers over 28,000 souls, a crowd gets 
together only when there is a dance, or 
“fiesta.” There are many Navajos who have 
never seen a white man. 
The weaving is done by the women and young 
girls, the latter being taught some of the steps 
as early as four years old. The great fear of 
the old chiefs is that as civilization encroaches 
upon the tribe, the art of weaving will grad¬ 
ually die out, and every effort is being made to 
perpetuate the remarkable artistry and craft- 
hood that has made the rugs of the Navajos 
superior in some ways to Orientals. 
The dearest possessions of every squaw are 
her weaving implements, and these are often 
passed down from mother to daughter through 
several generations. Rug weaving is not a spe¬ 
cialized art, where one does all the dyeing, an¬ 
other the spinning, and so on. Each woman 
must know each step of the process and the 
acquisition of this knowledge means a life’s work. 
From the very beginning, when the wool is 
sheared, until the finished rug is untied from the 
loom, every step is taken in the most laborious 
way, and the most primitive tools are used ; blit 
the result is miraculous, and no one in looking 
at the riot of color and inerenuity of design can 
fail to appreciate that skill and patience play 
a large part in the making. The Indian squaw 
lays thread upon thread, deftly, surely building 
up little by little a story of hope deferred or 
victory won, until, at the end of six or eight 
months, what we see as a rather attractive Indian 
rug is in reality a part of the weaver’s life story. 
\\ hite, black and brown sheep roam on the 
reser\ ation, and from these the Indians get their 
white, black and brown wool. The gray is made 
by mixing, or carding, the white and black to¬ 
gether. In these colorings there is no dye. Other 
colors used are red. indigo, green and yellow; all 
native dyes except the red, which is a vegetable 
dye made especially for the Indian trade. 
