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and verifying new notes. During the five days I was able to question two of the greatest medicine men of the Navajos, the greatest gambler, and Tyoni the greatest chief of the Southern part of the reservation. The last named gave me some of the most interesting notes concerning the old poncho blankets. He had worn them when he was a young man and was able to tell about the manner of making them and also the way they were worn. I have notes concerning all of the various phases of this rather rare type of their textile productions. The questions and answers relating to this blanket brought forth new light on the subject of designs. When I return I will be able to open the eyes of some of the scientists as well as the general student as many theories concerning designs have been shown to be mere children of the brain of some poetically inclined enthusiast.

I finished with Morgan, the interpreter, Saturday night. Monday was spent in rounding out certain parts of the notes, and in making plans for the looms that Mr. Hubbell is to have made for me after I leave here. There is so much to do at present that he can find no woman who will make the primitive warp and woof strands and, being that this is the only kind that will do I have had to make out carefully rounded plans and specifications for the work. In the afternoon I developed two dozen films and then prepared a platform for photographing the paintings of blankets that Mr. Hubbell has had made from time to time. They are records of the finest designs that he has had made and he gave me permission to photograph them. It was a regular Godsend as by this method I was able to acquire in a few hours what would have taken months had I have had to hunt up the designs myself. Yesterday I photographed over seventy five of these paintings. All