. American Indians : first families of the Southwest . 906 theIndian office roughly estimated their number at 28,500. The Navaho home is built of tree trunks and limbs covered with grass andearth, and is conical in form. The smoke goes out through an opening in the the winter residence. In summer a lean-to serves between trips. Onecause for their poor houses and consequent nomadic trait is the belief that a habi-tation must be destroyed once a death occurs in it. Sometimes the loss of thehome is avoided by carrying the dying to the open and letting the end come out-side. When they d
. American Indians : first families of the Southwest . 906 theIndian office roughly estimated their number at 28,500. The Navaho home is built of tree trunks and limbs covered with grass andearth, and is conical in form. The smoke goes out through an opening in the the winter residence. In summer a lean-to serves between trips. Onecause for their poor houses and consequent nomadic trait is the belief that a habi-tation must be destroyed once a death occurs in it. Sometimes the loss of thehome is avoided by carrying the dying to the open and letting the end come out-side. When they decide to move, all that is necessary is to place any belongingsworth taking on a travois, mount their ponies and be on their way. They have been shepherds and goatherd?, since the Spaniards advent. Theirprincipal-art isblanket weaving, which they learned from Pueblo women capturedin war, but they are also expert silversmiths. The few basket weavers amongthem are said to be descendants of Ute and Paiute girls, also captives. Digitized by IVIicrosoft®.
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