The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-11

day dress Of the Hopi women consists of
sort of kilt which Is wrapped around the
hips and fastened with a belt "a moultica'
ton Of the blanket or wolf skln); above
this sort of sleeveless chemise partly
covers the bosom. Their hair Is carefully
tended, but it worn in an ungraceful
mode by some of the women.
Inc women of Hano cut their hair In
front square across about to the line of the
tips while the back hair is gathered into
sort of billet. The front hair hangs
down over the faces, often concealing one
eye. They have a pretty little trick OF
giving it a twist with fingers and fling
back from the face, which they make use
OF when they are interested and want TO
see more clearly. When they are abashed
their hair falls like a thick veil over the
entire face. They brush it with the short
end of their whiSk brooms, whlch are
made of a bundle of slints bound tightly
in the middle. The unmarried women IN
Walpi wear their hair in a strange way.
They coil it into two big disks just above
the ears-'"The intent being to Symbolic
their youth and promise by initiating the
squash flower" The matrons correspond
ingly dress their hair to symbolic the rip
ened squash" Some of the maldens were
wonderfully Japanese in appearance. Lit
tie Quang, the daughter of He'll in whose
house l stayed, was most amazingly
Oriental type. Near by was girl OF pro-
nounced Jewish type.
The women of Isleta, Acoma and Hano
wear a sort of logging formed by winding
about the calf a strip of white cotton cloth,
anciently it was buckskin, no doubt. This
gives their legs a heavy look, but their
movements are full of dignity and power.
They seem more muscular than the men,
and are in fact, large and strong. 1t was
marvellous to see them come and go UP
the PERPENDICULAR trail at Acoma, bearing
Jars of water and baskets of plums, up a
trail so difficult that a plainsman needs
both feet and hands to feels secure.
The men are slender fellows, with round
ed, plant limbs in youth. Even in age
they seldom grow heavy or inactive. They
wear their hair clipped in front like the
women, but confine it to their head with
hllets of red or green, making stunning
composition of color" the artist said.
They are mainly very pleasant of fea ture
except when before camera. They man.
age TO look very awkward and very mo-
rose when being photographed. They also
look darker than they are, in fact, and
coarser in type. In reality, there is hne
glow of red bronze in their faces, and the
hair falling over the face is not repulsiVe
in life
Religiously, they are in a transition
state. Part Of their gods are below, part
above. Some few of the men of to-day
who sits in the heart of the sky" Some
profess to disbelieve in the sacred rites
and to ignore religious dances. The six
''world-directons" still have mysterious
significance to all the Pueblos. They ad-
dress the mythic beings. The Bear, The
Cougar, 1.-THE Dark Woman who Dwells
in the West or South, or Deep in the
Earth" They pray TO the six 'word-direc-
TONS" and sprinkle offerings in the same
way, and always from north to west, and
so round the compass. This strange use
of the "world-directions" seems to set
them apart from other Indians, though it
may be that Cosmogy equally compli-
GATED was once held by the Sioux or Iro-
quols. That of the Navajos is almost as
intricate.
There are thirty inhabited villages Of the
Pueblo-dwellers They may not all pos
sess cliff-dwelling ancestry, but it is be-
lieved that most of them do. The larger
part of these people dwell in fortified cities
on fortress-like mesas. They are cliff
jewellers, though not in the strict sense
of the term as applied to the artificial
caves in the Canon du Chiefly, or in the
canons on the Mesa Verde, or in the era
tiers and caves of the San Francisco noun
tains. As cliff-folk they will soon be gone.
Stable throughout the centuries, they are
now subject to new forces and environ
ments. What the Navajo and Apache
did the white man will undo. The press
ure of danger set them on those nights.
As they come to trust in the white man
they will come down from their commu-
nal forts and build on the plains.