The Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais

· 1923

The Chief Antelope Priest depositing Pahos at the Shrine of the Spider Woman. " " 106 Wild, weird, and mystic pictures are formed in the mind by the very name--the Painted Desert. The sound itself suggests a fabled rather than a real land. Surely it must be akin to Atlantis or the Island of Circe or the place where the Cyclops lived. Is it not a land of enchantment and dreams, not a place for living men and women, Indians though they be?…

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