The Pulaskian., 1919-04-25
HE recent discovery by scien-
 lists of lost tribe of Ameri-
 can Indians-the Hayasupai-

T-4 HE recent discovery by Sclen-
 lists of q lost tribe of Ameri-
 M can Indians-the Havasupai-
 walled up in obscurity in a deep canyon of western Arizona re- veals a situation so astonishing that It would seem incredible if the story came from a source less reliable than the American Museum of Natural His tory. writes !. A. Brashears in the New York Sun.
 CIoistered in a fertile valley, where sheer walls cut the great plateau to depth of 5000 feet, Leslie Spier, a member of the museum's staff, has found tribe of wild primitive h. dians still living the lives of their an cestors and in almost total ignorance of the forward march of civilization.
 Here on the banks of Cataract creek, which flows northward to cascade in- to the torrents of the Grand Canyon. these aborigines and their forebears have lived for ten centuries with sell dom a glimpse of the territory lying beyond the canyon top. The chief of the tribe counts the visits of the white man on the fingers of one hand.
 Anthropologists have poked into the utmost corners of the earth from pole to pole; have studied and classified the various tribes of Indians for years. while in some remarkable manner the Havasupai, living within our very bcr- ders, have escaped notice.
 Tn.fio now ar 175 in the tribe-constitute the only purely aboriginal and primitive com munity in the United States today. They have lived like hermits. The customs and machines, the social ad- vances of the outside world have fail ed to penetrate the fastness of their realm.
 Not Easy to Visit Them.
 To reach their home. a 50-mile ride. over a waterless tract is necessary. When the brink of the chasm is reached the drop of 5000 feet has to be made mostly on foot along hardly perceptible trail. Only a small part of the hazardous twelve-mile descent can be made mounted. One must lit- orally cling to the walls of the canyon. Tn no place is the trail wider than three feet and inc animals rub their sides raw through scraping along the side of the canyon.
 Tn one place the two walls come together and form a corner. Here it is necessary to make a 500-foot drop 1 by zigzagging from wall to wall. This 1 is the most perilous section of the 1 journey for the trail is nothing more than series of steps. The animals must jump from one to the other. As l the men on foot must walk in front their lives are constantly endangered. Should pack animal miss it's footing l the man in front would be knocked to l oblivion.
 Today the Hayasupai subsist on l marvelously cultivated tract two and one-quarter miles long and about one quarter of mile wide. They depend chiefly on agriculture for their SUD- port, but iG former days they descend ed far south down their valley in quest l of deer. antelope and bear The camps are situated along the east side of the creek, which irrigates the land so well that enough food is harvested off this small section of one and one-half square miles to supply them from sea- son to season.
 Some of Their Customs.
 Mir. Spier classifies the tribe as Sin termediary," since their culture en- braces traits peculiar to the four ad- l jacent tribes of the southwest area. "Tn general characteristics" he said, they lean more toward the Pueblos of northern Mexico. The custom that pre- vails among the Pueblos--that of the l men and women working together in tho field-also exists among the SupGi.
 "The men also make clothing out of buckSlSin. domestic trait character | istic Of the Pueblos. The influence of l the other adjacent tribes. while slight, 1 may be seen in the construction of various types of huts and tepees. The 1 Havasupai build four different types. There is a log and mud hut common among the Navajos; the conical
 hatched tepee built to a great extent lmong the Mohaves and the square
 .atched hut of the Plateau Indians.
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