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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The Havasupai of Cataract Canon A TKIBE OF INDIANS HIDDEN IN THE (iOROES OF THE (iRAND ("ANON OF ARIZONA PRESERVE THEIR PROHTIVE LIFE By h V) S L I E S V 1 J) \i . IN" the midst of unusual surroundings nothing seems strange, and that I found myself received as "ambassa- dor from the white people"' by the little known tribe of Havasu- pai Indians seemed quite in the order of nor- mal happenings —after I had threaded the trail that s \\' i n g s through gigantic gorges to their canon home. Cer- tainly, they re- plied to my re- quests, if, in the outside world Havasupai modes of life were un- known to white people, the head chief himself would supply the needed facts, and would even requisition from the tribe such material as would make a suitable collection. A month of traveling through the camps of the Apaches in cen- tral Arizona had left little expec- tation of finding a people less
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Man<ikadja, hereditary chief, and his wife, Gwagwathgwave, are splendid types of old-time Indians. Dignified, courteous, and hospitable, they placed information and possessions freely at the Museum's disposal. They are shown wearing "civi- lized" clothes, for, following the Government assist- ance given during and after the flood in 1910, which washed away nearly everything the tribe possessed, the Indians never returned to many of their primi- tive industries. In fact, we secured for the Museum the only remaining example of a stone knife which they said they had forgotten how to make touched by civilization than they, even among the still primitive tribes of the Southwest. Late in the summer I ar- rived at the firaiid Caiion and, with a party of Indians, made the jour- ney westward across the forest- clad plateau to Cataract Caiion, the tributary gorge in which the Havasupai live. From the rim of Cataract Caiion there is a three-thousand - foot descent into the narrow val- ley, and into this abyss the trail bravely plunges. At first it stretches away in easy stages, twisting through the pine trees or between cliffs which converge overhead, always descending. At last it arrives at the brink of a precipice, whence the caiion floor drops away in a series of ti- tanic steps. The break reaches from wall to 637

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