ACING PAGE

South House of Frijoles Canyon ii

Indian woman making pottery xii

Indian girl of Isleta, N. M. xx

One way of entering the desert 4

In the Coconino Forest of Arizona 14

Forest ranger fighting a ground fire with his blanket 22

Pueblo boys at play 34

Chili peppers drying outside pueblo dwelling 46

Los Pueblos, Taos, N. M. 56

Entrance to a cliff dwelling 64

Ruins of Frijoles Canyon 74

A Hopi wooing 80

A Hopi weaver 86

A shy little Hopi maid 92

At the water hole on the outskirts of Laguna 96

A handsome Navajo boy 106

The Pueblo of Walpi 122

The Grand Canyon 140

The Governor's Palace at Santa Fe 154

A pool in the Painted Desert 160

Street in Santa Fe 166

Ancient adobe gateway 172

San Ildefonso 180

Taos 188

Over the roofs of Taos 198

A metal worker of Taos 208

A mud house of the Southwest 220

The enchanted Mesa of Acoma 230

Navajo crossing mesa 246

At the Mission of San Xavier 254

A Moki City on a mesa 262

THROUGH OUR UNKNOWN SOUTHWEST

INTRODUCTION

I am sitting in the doorway of a house of the Stone Age--neolithic,
paleolithic, troglodytic man--with a roofless city of the dead lying in
the valley below and the eagles circling with lon