AMONG THE INDIANS
I am a girl who lives way out west in New Mexico. We are but a short distance from Mesa Verda National Park, and the ruins are very interesting. The Navajo Indian reservation is only 12 miles away and there are always a few Indians. in,_Fat:mington. The "women wear skirts down to their ankles. The poorest Indian women only have 10 yards in their skirts, but some of the richer ones have 25 yards. They never change their dresses, but when one wears out. they put another one on top of it. They live in houses called “hogans” which are made , of logs set on end in a circle with an opening always in the east, because of a superstition, and logs across the top and dirt piled all round and oh There are many interesting legends connected .with the Navajo race and if I had time, I wbuld tell you some of them. .. . —SARA JUNE HARKNESS. , New Mexico.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21986, 9 January 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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