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Wed - Aug - 24 - Early in the morning we went to find Hobeah & Quoyarewa to help them get their drawings up, but they had gone out & we drove to the Ceremonial grounds where Romando & Ricardo hailed us, the latter riding back to the hotel with us where we introduced him to the management that they might allow him to go back & forth to the room and make it his dressing room. H. & Q. were standing, in all their glory of paint and feathers back of the usual row of hotel lobby-chairs, bestowing smiles upon us as statues might bestow smiles - in a remote & unbending fashion. Later, in the parade, their places were next the Indian band, as became their gorgeous appearance. When I entered Exhibition hall Edward, with a typical Navajo moustached friend (or father) stood mournfully before the murals. [[strikethrough]] I walked up to them [[strikethrough]] My efforts at explanations and regret brought forth no reply except "it would have been better never to have brought them". "Perhaps so, but who could dream that they would cut our space short and crowd them out. Don't be angry with me Edward. I did the best I could about it" I* laid my hand on his arm and* choked back my tears. I was grateful for his "Yes." 

Races & relay races, [[strikethrough]] dances [[/strikethrough]] on foot & on horseback, dances, Navajo men in fine costume drawn up in line to be judged by Oliver LaFarge and Morris Burge, and give prizes for the best costume, pretty girls darting about, enormous skirts swishing about moccasined feet - Leathery old faces of men bound about with fur, wrinkled old faces of women half hidden in bright shawls. Covered wagons [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] framing in happy onlookers. hot crowds milling through [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] the exhibition hall. Again I caught sight of Edward's face - more tragic and haunted than the happening of the murals could have alone made it. Tomorrow I must have a talk with him - Mr. Faris appears, also the Rushes, also Louise Morris & Mrs VanStone. The McCormicks, Basilio, Martha, Julian, Alison & Tom Dodge, etc. At night dances, chants, dances & bonfires, color, movement. Tonight we are told that the Kiowa dancers are angry over