. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . )erfectthhght, in this age of womans physical disabihtyand disincHnation to do physical labor. So it is with Indian women. They sing in nnison. &>MHSlr NAVAHO :MATni:\S CAHRYIXG WATER OVER THE DESERT. when a dozen of them get together at the grinding-trough; though the work is hard enough, when longcontinued, to exhaust any strong man. I have seenwomen kneel and pound acorns all day, lifting a heavypestle as high as their heads at every stroke. In the 114 LABOR FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN case of these women buil
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . )erfectthhght, in this age of womans physical disabihtyand disincHnation to do physical labor. So it is with Indian women. They sing in nnison. &>MHSlr NAVAHO :MATni:\S CAHRYIXG WATER OVER THE DESERT. when a dozen of them get together at the grinding-trough; though the work is hard enough, when longcontinued, to exhaust any strong man. I have seenwomen kneel and pound acorns all day, lifting a heavypestle as high as their heads at every stroke. In the 114 LABOR FOR GIRLS AND WOMEN case of these women builders at Oraibi: they carriedall the hea\y rocks and put them in position, mixedtheir own mortar, and were their own paddies, andin everything, save the placing of the heavy cross-beams for the roof, to handle which they called uponsome of the men for aid, they did all the work frombeginning to end. Now, while I do not especially want to see white
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