American Indians : first families of the Southwest . travagantly addicted to the use of cosmetics. Both men and womencovered their faces with smooth coatings of red ocher or a blue paint made fromthe wild indigo plant. These decorations were not the war paint customary amongother tribes, but were worn as an every day ornament. They knew little about pottery, but met the situation by making baskets,coating them with clay and using them as cooking utensils. All basket makingIndians know the time and season for digging the plants, how to dry, pre-pare and preserve the tough and pliable parts for
American Indians : first families of the Southwest . travagantly addicted to the use of cosmetics. Both men and womencovered their faces with smooth coatings of red ocher or a blue paint made fromthe wild indigo plant. These decorations were not the war paint customary amongother tribes, but were worn as an every day ornament. They knew little about pottery, but met the situation by making baskets,coating them with clay and using them as cooking utensils. All basket makingIndians know the time and season for digging the plants, how to dry, pre-pare and preserve the tough and pliable parts for use and to reject the have knowledge of dyes, and for tools they use their nimble fingers and sharpstones, a bone awl and a shell for polishing. In these days, scissors, knives and steelawls have been added. The largest basket made by them is for burden purposesand the squaws often use them as papoose carriers. Another is in the shape of abowl and a third is a bottle, made water-proof by means of pinon pitch. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®. A SUPAI CORNFIELDCATARACT CANYON, ARIZONA Digitized by IVIicrosoft® The Story of the Thunder Bird (Illustrated on Title Page) In the mythology of all the Indians of North America birds play a mostprominent part, and of them all the Thunder Bird is the most frequently en-countered. Growing out of the effort of primitive man to account for the naturalphenomena surrounding him, the myth of the Thunder Bird varies as to detailwith almost every tribe, but with most of them it is held responsible for the light-ning and thunder; and with some for the rain. The species varies with the dif-ferent tribes. With some it is shaped as an eagle, with others as a hawk, withothers as a grouse, and with still others as a mighty monster of unknown form. The wide extent of this myth is shown by the fact that the Thunder Birdfigures prominently in the mythology of the Eskimo, the Northwest Indians, theNavaho, the Plains Indians, and the Pueblo peoples.
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