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shattered with a .44 bullet, was pretty 
good evidence. And this was the story 
of the only one-armed Indian I ever 
saw. 
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Here are a few of the strange 
customs and characteristics of the 
Pueblo Indians along the Rio Grand 
that perhaps you do not know: 
The child belongs to the mother; 
the father cannot own a house. The 
pueblos (villages) are divided into 
many clans, all named, like Green 
Corn People, Wolf People, River 
People, etc.; and people who belong 
to a clan cannot marry into the clan. 
They must marry from another clan. 
With all Indian tribes of the south- 
west, I am told descent is from the 
mother, not the father. 
Some of the southwest Indians put 
their dead in the tops of trees to 
mummify; others burn the bodies and 
all belongings with them, but the Rio- 
Grande tribes bury them, and with 
them many a string of beads, tur- 
quoise, silver ornaments, etc., that a 
relic hunter would take a long chance. 
to get, as some of ‘them are of great 
relic value, But nearly all burials are 
near, and often in the center of the 
village and if a white man attempted 
to disturb them he would be killed 
like a coyote, I have seen Indian bur- 
jal grounds, where the dead had been 
buried for so many hundred of years 
one upon another, that there was al- 
most more bones than dirt, and arm, 
leg, rib and skull bones were stick- 
ing out of the ground all over the 
burial yard. 
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The Navajos have some peculiar 
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habits and characteristics. Although 
their reservation adjoins the snake- 
tending Moquis, yet they shun a rat- 
tlesnake as much as a white man. 
The Navajos are great meat eaters 
and will live entirely on game if they 
can get it, yet they will not touch rab- 
bit meat if starving. They will lie 
down by a prairie dog hole and wait 
all day to catch him, and his meat is 
in great demand, but no rabbit stews 
for a Navajo. 
The Navajos are, I believe, the 
only Indian tribe of the southwest 
that does not live in villages and the 
only tribe that live almost entirely 
on meat. They do not even live near 
neighbors and their hogans (houses) 
are built back from the roads and 
trails, hidden from view by a pile of 
rocks or a hill, 
With a gun one day I went out 
after the noon lunch to get a rabbit 
and climbing over a lava hill I ran 
onto an Indian home, half built and 
half dug into a hill. Behind the house 
was a squaw on her knees before a 
loom weaving a Navajo blanket. The 
dogs dashed out at me as I started 
down the hill and I halted, They held 
me at bay. So long as I kept that 
distance they laid down and watched, 
but the first step forward they 
growled in an ugly way. I wanted 
very much to see the squaw work, but 
the dogs said no. She paid absolutely 
no attention to me. The man I was 
with said if the Indian had been at 
home he would have welcomed me, 
in the hope of selling a blanket, but 
the dogs were trained to guard the 
squaw. 
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The Navajos are wonderful silver- 
smiths, and considering that their 
tools are little more than a hammer 
and a piece of iron to pound on, they 
turn out some beautiful rings, brace- 
lets, and other articles, and they can 
be bought a little above the cost of 
the silver in them. 
Silver is the metal and turquoise 
the gem of all Indians. I never saw 
a gold ornament on an Indian, and 
they told me if I would offer an In- 
dian a gold finger ring he wouldn't 
accept it. ; . 
But they will trade anything they 
have, their horses and saddles for the 
coveted turquoise. It is said there is 
but one turquoise mine in all New 
Mexico, northwest of Santa Fe, own- 
ed by the Tiffany jewelers of New 
York, yet the Indians go far back in 
the mountains and find-it, and lots of — 
it. But no inducements are potent to 
make them reveal the source, 
On all their jewelry is the blue 
stone, some polished, some in the raw 
quartz, It is to them what the dia- 
mond is to us. They set them into 
handsomely carved bracelets, ear 
rings, and many other articles. — I 
have seen Indians with strings of 
turquoise beads twelve or fifteen feet — 
long, looped around their necks sev- 
eral times. It is difficult to get these, 
for the reason the Indians would 
rather have them than the white 
man’s money. Some of their bridles 
are wonderful works of Indian art, 
almost covered with silver mountings 
and turauoise settings. 
And their water jars. I was offer- 
ed one that would hold about ten 
quarts for a dollar, but had no way 
to carry it, as I was going in instead 
of out, The squaws make this work, 
and some of the designs are really 
artistic. 
They are a great people, these In- 
dians. Going from one tribe to anoth- 
er you will find such pronounced dif- 
ferences in customs and ways of liy- 
ing, yet mix two tribes and you could 
not distinguish them. 
They are all more or less sun wor- 
shippers, but they do not take to re- — 
ligion to any extent, The Catholics — 
work hard among them, but have lit- 
tle success. 
REAL ESTATE 
Henry S, Dennis of Manchester 
conveys to Edward C, Fitz of Bos- ~ 
‘ton, 2 acres of land known as Nor- 
ton’s Pasture, Manchester. 
Lenora F, Gorman of Manchester 
conveys to Bernice T. Semons of 
Manchester, 26 acres woodland 
known as Common pasture; also 3 
acres woodland near Bayberry 
Marsh, Manchester, 
Moderation is the pleasure of the 
wise.—Voltaire. 
