. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. ture of one oftheir vases in the corner of the large picture ofthe Pueblo house. TIHUS. The little girls in the pueblos have dolls or tihusto phiy with. They are made to represent is the picture of one—curious-looking, isntit ? These dolls, made and dressed by the mothers,are used in religious ceremonies, and to teachthe children of the pueblos many ideas about theirgods. After that the children have them to playwith. THE PARENT RACE. Some ethnologists believe that all these earlypeople of America—the Pueblos, the Cliff-dwel
. Indians and pioneers; an historical reader for the young. ture of one oftheir vases in the corner of the large picture ofthe Pueblo house. TIHUS. The little girls in the pueblos have dolls or tihusto phiy with. They are made to represent is the picture of one—curious-looking, isntit ? These dolls, made and dressed by the mothers,are used in religious ceremonies, and to teachthe children of the pueblos many ideas about theirgods. After that the children have them to playwith. THE PARENT RACE. Some ethnologists believe that all these earlypeople of America—the Pueblos, the Cliff-dwell-ers, the Mound-builders, and the Midden-men camefrom one race, which lived in Central America,and were the builders of the wonderful structureswhich are found there to-day. If you put yourpencil on your maps at Central America, and drawa line to the Pueblo States of New Mexico, Ari-zona, Utah and Colorado; then go back and draw 54 INDIANS AND PIONEERS. another line from Central America to the OhioValley; and still other lines to the Atlantic and the. 3Iana; .ik. The Cmt Pacific coasts, you will see that one race may havesent out emigrants in all these directions. Theymay have gone at various times, and for various EARLIEST DAYS IN AMERICA. 55 reasons. They went to different places, and theymay have mingled with more barliarie races thantheir own. War, perhaps, was made on them asintruders. All of these conditions had much to dowith changing their habits and customs, until aftera few generations they were like a different peo-ple. Probably they forgot their parent race, astheir descendants have forgotten them. Men in-terested in such thino-s mio-ht never have thouo-htof the connection if they had not found the remains,which are carefully kept now in our we compare the vases and tools made bythe Pueblos with those made by the Cliff-dwellersand Mound-builders of the United States, and allwith the liner things made by the ancient peopleof Central America, we see
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