The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-05
STORIES OF MANY CLIMBS
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wests side of Santa Cruz river and about twelve miles south of Tucson, found some of them located in houses on the east side, and not being able to elicit the first word from them earlier from English or Spanish questions they being as dumb as brutes, I put spurs to my horse and rode to Tucson for information as had received none whatever for that emergency. In stopping at the Papago reservation, where the old Jesuit San Xavier mis- sion is, l gave Papago Indian a half dollar to let me visit the church, and found it quite a curiosity. It is built on the plan of a cross; has three domes, and I believe there is no wood used in it's structure. It is made or burnt adobes and plastered on the out side with mortar. It has also two tur- rets over two of the domes, and one was left unfinished as ] understand purposely to avoid paying tribute to the Pope. Thirty years or whereabouts were occupied in its construction, the last of the eighteenth century. The designs both inside and outside look as though wrought by very crude amateur artisans, especially noticeable in the curves. It has not been kept in repair, and judging from the inside walls in the gallery, which face has been badly disfigured by names cut into it by chisel and hammer, I should think it had been recklessly thrown open to any one some time previous to my en- trance. *
 The Yuma and Mojave Indians are not restricted to their reservations, but are scattered all the way between Yu- ma and Fort Mojave on the draws
 There Is another tribe, however, occu- pying a portion of the valley near Bill Williams Fork called the Chimehua- huas. They are in reality a split off from the Pautes. The Pautes are loca- ted little above Fort Mojave, and from there on north and west. The oldest inhabitants are unable to distin- guish the Mojave from the Yumas, but 1t is understood their dialect varies somewhat The Yumas occupy the lower valley and the Mojave the upper valley. The Chimehuahuas are more industrious and more civilized than either of the other tribes, and compare very favorably with the Mexicans on the border, and dress as well. The Yumas and Mojave build no houses and live under an arbor to shield them from the sun only in the warm months. In winter they build a kind of enclo- sure that will accommodate quite number, without any facilities for light or cookir g, and huddle together to keep themselves warm. The Paris fashions in wearing apparel not pre- vailing there they are not fretting themselves about keeping up with 1t, but content themselves mostly with what nature has endowed them; the elder males and the boys with the addition of girt string about their Joins and long piece of cotton cloth tucked over the String in front passing between the legs and tucked over the string behind so that it trails on the ground little Often the cloth is four or five cotton handkerchiefs in length and one in breadth, and sometimes several small print American flags are worn for that purpose. The latter is probably a misinterpretation by the Wearer of the author of "unfurl it to the breeze" as the author did not quail fly himself as to what kind of a breeze. The young bucks just emerging into manhood, or the Mojave elite, must ne- cessarily adorn himself a little more; consequently he comes in possession of an undershirt, sometimes with red and white, and sometimes with black and white horizontal stripes. Their girt string is composed of several skeins of yarn, the handkerchiefs and Amer ican flags being worn also by them. Their legs and faces are also decorated profusely with mineral paint obtained by them in the mountains. The hair of both the old and young males are knotted into strands by talk ing a portion of the long black hair and twisting 1t, then commencing near the head and pushing pin through the center of the leck, making an opening through which to pass the end of the strand, and continuing such operation until the end is reached. Each strand or lock so divided around the head is served the same way, and it consumes great deal of time in doing it. It lasts long time when the end is whipped with cord, and it serves them very often when swimming the river to tie articles on the head The female costumes are not quite so ex- pensive as some of our eastern ladies. the older ones being simply a girt string about their Joins with innumera- ble strands of rags suspended from 1t DHIL Way TOutlu III lEODl, anu Sllll IlOIS in numbers of strands of willow bark suspended from it behind so that it causes them to have an extensive "Grecian bend" That, however is more for use than for ornament as it is used by them to seat child on when journeying from place to place by the little one setting on behind and holding on by clasping it's arms around it's mother The strands of rags and will low bark form a continuous covering from the waist down to the knees while the squaw is standing. When she sits down, which she always does by swinging the willow bark back and forth, so that by a sudden movement she is enabled to sit on the willow strands behind, she exposes the outer portion of her thighs Some of the squaws wear a large piece of cotton cloth in addition by simply tieing two corners together around their neck. The male and female are tattooed on their chin. generally in four lines from the mouth downWards. In addition to that some have an extension from the two outer lines in the way of spear heads A few also have some design tattooed on their foreheads. At times -c4 h h1ra.al