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colored of Arizona baskets. There are no set color schemes, but the whole decorative plan and color combination are suject to the will of the weaver. 
   Ten miles away of the Second Mesa, one will find an entirely different basket craft. The baskets here are made of yucca and are of the coil type somewhat similar to the Papago weaves, the main difference being that the shredded yucca is dyed in the same manner as the rabbit brush in the Third Mesa baskets. The most distinctive feature is the large soft bundle of split yucca leaves or Galleta grass around which the dyed yucca is coiled. This makes the coil larger than that of other Arizona baskets but the weaving material is very fine and the finished basket is a very smooth and beautiful specimen of the weavers' craft. The decorative designs are somewhat similar to tose of the Third Mesa but tend more toward conventional faces of deities and geometric figures. 
   The Hopi continue to use their baskets in their religious rituals and other ceremonies. Hte most colorful of these is the wedding ceremony. This is quite an elaborate affair and extends over a considerable period of time, so much so that these thrifty farm people have their wedding ceremonies during the winter when they are not busy in their fields. After the young people have been united, according to the sacred law of the Hopi people, and the groom and his bride have moved in with his mother-in-law, as tribal customdecrees that he must do, then at a prearranged date his bride and her people form a procession to visit the groom's mother. Each carries a flat or shallow bowl-shaped basket heaped with ground corn which the bride and her relatives have ground by hand on a flat grinding stone. The groom's mother may keep the ground corn and all the baskets with the exception of the one which the bride carries. This basket is given to the groom and in the olden times he was buried in a sitting position on it. On a visit to the Hopi country, my firend and guide, who had recently witnessed a Hopi wedding, took me to the home of the groom's mother. She was very gracious and permitted us to take pictures of the baskets that had been given to her in the wedding ceremony.
   Hardly less picturesque than the Hopi are their neigh-bors to the west, the Havasupai. Long ago this small band of farm peole descended to the bottom of Cataract Canyon and have since maintained themselves on little farms along the Havasu Creek which runs through the Canyon and then plungers in three great falls into the Colorado River of the Grand Canyon. Cataract Canyon might be called a side canyon or spur of the Grand Canyon and while not as deep as the great gorge, its floor is 3300 feet below the surrounding territyor. In many places it is only a quarter of a mile in width and the Havasupai Village is accessible only by two narrow trails that wind along the steep canyon wall. There are no traffic problems in the Havasupai Village for all traffic is either on horseback or by foot. There is a Government school, post office, and other buildings which, together with their equipment, have all been carried into the canyon on pack animals. I am told that the lumber was all cut into eight-foot lengths in order that the pack animals might nego-tiate the shart turns in the trail. The Havasupai tribe is another member of the Yuman family and is closely related to both the Yavapi and Hualpai tribes. There little canyon is sometimes called the "Land of the Willows" because this tree lines the little stream that flows through the canyon. Their baskets, which are the principal craft of the Havasupai, are made from the twigs of the trees and the devil's claw which they cultivate on their own farms. Their craft is very similar to that of the Yavapa and Apache. They use the same three rod foundation, with their coiling material being split willow and devil's claw. The arrangement of the decorative figures in the Havasupai baskets differs somewhat from the Apache and Yavapai but the characters themselves are similar. These include animals, birds, lines and triangles, and other geometric figures. The star as the main symbol in the decorative pattern is quite common. Generally speaking, Havasupai baskets are not as well women as those of the mountain people. 
   The rolling range land of the Hualpai reservation lies immediately south of Havasupai Canyon. The Hualpai are another member of the Yuman family and are closely related to the Havasupai. The two tribes associate freely with each other to the extent that intermarriage between the two is not infrequent. According to an old legend, after the great water that covered the earth had drained away through a hole in the ground, two divine beings came up from the underworld and climbed to the top of a mountain in the Hualpai country. The younger of the two was Tedjupa and it was agreed that he should rule all the land that lay before him, but there were no people on the land so he went down to the river and brought some stalks of cane and broke them into short pieces. He laid these on the ground and they immediately became living people. For a long time, Tedjupa and his people lived around the base of the Hualpai Mountain, but in time dissension sprang up and Tedjupa decided to separate them. He gave each group some corn, beans, and squash seed. He gave each group to the south and told them to plant their fields along the great river (Colorado River). This was the Mojave Tribe. Another group he sent north across the river. They were Piutes. Another group was sent down into the canyon along the "River of the Sky-Blue Water." These were the Havasupai. For a time the rest of his people continued to live at the Hualpai Mountain. Trouble started one day when children at play began to throw mud at each other. Then they started throwing stones and a child was hurt. Some of their parents took up the fight and after 

[[image]] Havasupai tray.

[[image]] A Hualpai basket.

[[image]] A burden basket - Havasupai.