THE NAVAJO RUG! 





AVAJO Indian Rugs are woven by hand of sheep’s wool in fascinating designs 
and colorings. They are the only hand wrought floor coverings made by a 
primitive people in the United States. 
N 
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 gradually die out, and every effort is being made to perpetuate the 
Sar me artistry and crafthood that has made the Rugs of the Navajos superior in some ways 
to Orientals. 




Navajos are alike on both sides; they do not curl; easy to clean; wear for more years than any 
other floor covering you can name; inexpensive. Just the attributes you are looking for in an ideal 
rug. The large majority of rugs come in a combination of gray, black, white and red, with either 
the red, white or gray predominating. For living-rooms and porches gray backgrounds are generally | 
the best; for bedrooms, bathrooms and camping blankets, get white backgrounds; and for dens, 
cozy corners, couch covers, etc., the red backgrounds give that fine touch of color that warms the 
heart and lends a distinctive air to the scheme of decoration. 





The Prices Vary According to Size 
$20.00 

ercakes Sue c rte $35.00 
60.00 to 75.00 




Cae eel Oe Lele eke epee) | tPF E | OP Mk ORFs ee. (a ees 
If not satisfactory they may be returned in exchange for others, or money will be refunded 
promptly on request. You pay express charges both ways. 




THE NAVAJO ASSOCIATION 
221 WEST 57th STREET, NEW YORK CITY 






FOLDING PUNCTURE-PROOF CANVAS BOATS 
Light, easy to handle,-no leaks or repairs; check as baggage, carry 
by hand; safe for family; all sizes; non-sinkable; stronger than wood; 
used by U. S. and Foreign Governments. Awarded First Prize at 
Chicago wd St. Louis World’s Fairs. We fit our boats for Outboard 
Motors. Catalog. 

King Folding Canvas Boat Co., 428 Harrison.St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 

DISCERNING ANGLING EXPERTS ARE DELIGHTED 'WITH THE NEW LOUIS RHEAD 
DRY, WET, AND NYMPH TROUT FLIES WITH FLEXIBLE HACKLE WINGS THAT 
KEEP THEIR SHAPE ON ROUGH USE. THEY WILL OUTLAST THH OLD-STYLE 
CURVED SPREADWING FLIES WHICH CRUMPLE UP AT FIRST USE. SEND ONE 
DOLLAR FOR REDUCED PRICE SAMPLE CARD OF A CHOICE SIX FLIES AND NYMPHS 
LOUISRHEAD tiv NATUREFLIES, NYMPHS LURES 
TIED 
FOR EARLY SPRING HIGHWATER, STREAM OR LAKE, BROOK TROUT WILL GRAB THE 
LARGE BLACK OR YELLOW PLUME NYMPH, 50c. ALSO YELLOW HELGRAMITE, 50c. THE 
BEST FLIES IN SPRING FOR CERTAIN LUCK ARE SET OF 12 TINY NATURE FLIES, $2.50. SET 
OF 4 TINY REVERSE FLOATERS, $1.00. SET OF 6 STONE FLIES, $2.00, MADE OF CORK TO 
FLOAT. REGULAR NATURE FLIES FOR APRIL AND MAY COPIED EXACT FROM NATURAL 
INSECTS, $2.50 DOZEN, CAREFULLY TIED AND REVISED BY THE Inventor and his Assistants. 
Send to LOUIS RHEAD, 217 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., for New Illustrated Price Lists. 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 



[ 


‘the brush and the water. 

It will identify you, 
into one of the long arms of Grand 
Lake Victoria. 
It was like a Venice of the wood- 
lands—water and land in even pro- 
portions—forests and lilies and around 
each island and along each shore there 
lay a band of rock and sand between 
At first we 
thought there was a sea level tide and 
then we realized that this network of 
lakes was a part of the Ottawa river 
and subject to the river’s rise and fall 
—now the river was low and the banks 
lay exposed. At high water on a river 
I had often wondered at the alley of 
clear water to be found between the 
sloping bank and the long bed of lily 
pads extending parallel to the shore 
line. Now the answer was plain—low 
water found the lilies hugging the 
shore. 
That night this five-foot depth of 
exposed river bed combined with the 
elements to give us our first night’s 
sleep free from the nerve racking, 
blood-letting torture of the singing 
“eagles.” 
At noon we came to a great bay 
which doubled back on our right al- 
most parallel to the course which we 
had just covered. Two years before, 
we had followed that bay. Ten miles 
to the south, five to the northeast and 
across a big circular bay we had come 
upon the stalwart cabins of the Hud- 
son Bay Co., surrounded by the tents 
of the trading Indians. The thick 
woods had been pushed back a scant 
eighth of a mile up a gradual slope 
and there they stood, a black dense 
line of sentinels holding high their 
little tassles of dark green foliage—in 
front of them the stumps of their 
fallen comrades and between these 
stumps grazed—two cows. We learned 
later that they had been brought in 
when calves and that when the In- 
dians had gone back into the bush for 
the trapping season ‘‘white tails” and 
moose come out to the big clearing and 
feed with the cows. 
All the dogs in the country came 
down to the shore or strained at their 
stake ropes and joined in the chorus 
of howls that greeted us when we were 
half way across the bay. There wasn’t 
a thoroughbred among them—big: and 
little—fat curly-haired dogs and gaunt 
straight haired, starved looking crea- 
turés — white and black — brown and 
yellow—all conceivable crosses and 
mixtures. Some leaped for your throat 
and others cowered as you turned—all 
would slash at your legs from behind. 
Yet they served man here in the woods 
in work that no other animal could 
do—stood hardships that no other 
animal could stand—fought and hated 
as demons. Man must use crude tools 
in a crude country. 
We hesitated for a long time at this 
turning point—it would take an extra 
Page 244 
