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JULY, 1938
In addition to the prize winning pictures in the
(Lake Mead) May contest, the judges wish to commend the fol-
By WELDON F. HEALD lowing entries for special merit:
"Los Arboles" — Rubio Canyon "Prickly Pear Blossom"
Altadena, California By George Clayton, 721 Loma Vista Drive,
This photo was awarded first prize in the May Long Beach, Calif.
amateur photographers' contest conducted by the "Sand Dune"
Desert Magazine. The view was taken at 3:30 p. m. By Arthur Buckwater, 562 Eighth Ave,,
January 15, 1938, with a FECA camera, Schneider
F 13.5 cm lens, time 1/25 second, stop f4.5, Wrattan Upland, Calif.
A 25 red filter, panchromatic film pack. "Mammillaria Blossom"
By Mary Beal, Daggett, Calif.
The DESERT MAGAZINE
n Dear Mr. Henderson:
Blacks Canyon, Mojave Desert.
o.
Los Angeles, California.
liked it fine. I am not much of a hand at criticizen but I think
you want to print the truth about the Desert, so here goes.
That feller who wrote the article about desert turtles was
plumb wrong about the desert sun holdin no terrors for this
creature. I had a friend onct that caught one and put it out
in the sun in a box temporary like and when he came back in
My dear Editor: about an hour it was as dead as all get out. He was wrong
Now you have started something I would like to finish. Un- too about their layin eggs in a shallow pit and coverin them
der the caption "Desert Place Names" in the June number, up with sand. I have watched them and they lay in a hole in
you are all wet as far as the reference to the town of Julian the bottom of their burrow a good foot under the ground and
goes. at least two feet back from the entrance. They would plumb
The first settlement in the little valley now known as Julian cook in the 90 days it takes them to hatch if they were near
was made in the fall of 1869 by D. D. and J. O. Bailey and the surface.
Mike and Web Julian. I recollect some one brought a parrot into our mining camp
The first gold-bearing quartz ledge was discovered in Feb- onct and they named him Jack. Well you wouldn't hardly
ruary 1870. A mining district was formed in March the same believe it but this here parrot layed an egg on the bottom of
year with Mike Julian as recorder. The district was named his cage so they renamed her Jill. Now this occurance tho
Julian in honor of the first recorder. mighty interestin to us desert folks didn't prove a thing about
The town of Julian was founded by D. D. Bailey in 1871. the natural habits of parrots. Im afraid this feller has studied
The survey was made by J. L. Mclntyre. When asked why his Agazzies or whatever he calls em in the same back yard
he didn't name the town Bailey, D. D. replied: "Mike was
where that picture was taken instead of out on the desert.
the best looking."
Your faithful reader,
Julian was not on the old emigrant trail, nor was it on the
Butterfield or Jackass mail route. Shoshone Gus.
• • •
For years I have tried in vain to locate the Julian ranch re-
ferred to as being on the Jackass mail route between Yuma La Mesa, California.
and San Diego. If you have any reliable information on that Dear Editor:
subject I would really appreciate it. I was owner and pub- Here is a bit of information about the fruit of the cactus
lisher of the Julian Sentinel for five years—the only newspa- given to me by an Indian whose ancestors were desert people.
per ever published in the Julian mining camp. The Mexicans sometimes call this fruit Indian fig, or the
James A. Jasper. Mexican word is Tuna. The Indian people gather the fruit
• • • by way of two pieces of wood made to form a tweezer or
Yermo, Mojave Desert. pincher. These two sticks are used chopstick fashion to lift
Editor "Desert:" the tuna off the main plant to be placed on the ground. Now
Have just finished reading from "cover to cover" the June a brush is fashioned from a weed which grows in the vicinity
issue and on page 36 found a surprising question. You ask where cactus is found. This weed is sometimes called tar
to know the name of the fruit of cactus. weed, and is used to brush the "splinters" off the fruit which
I thought it was as well known as Hollywood. can then be rolled on the ground until they are all off. If they
The name is TUNA, and I have only once heard a west- do not come off easily the fruit is not ready to eat, but if they
erner call it anything else and had to ask her what was meant do the fruit is now ready to be peeled and tasted, and oh, so
then. She called it a "prickly pear." rare a treat awaits the taster.
I am not sure but I believe the name Tuna is Indian, In hope this information will suffice till you come upon a
though it may be Mexican. Once I heard it argued that it better method.
was called Tuna because the fruit resembled fish, but the word U. Lucas.
is not fish in any language that I know of.
There is no more connection between Tuna (fruit) and
Tuna (fish) than there is between Swallow (bird) and Swal-
Orange, New Jersey.
low (the act).
Dear Editors:
Elmo Proctor.
• • • Just a line to express my appreciation and to say how lucky
Glenn Ranch, California. I was to receive, as a birthday gift from a friend of mine liv-
Dear Randall: ing in Las Vegas, Nevada, a subscription to The Desert, in-
Again it is to say that your poetry page in the May issue is cluding the back issues. How much I am enjoying this maga-
the best to be found in any American magazine. zine need not be emphasized for from all the correspondence
"The Desert Goes To Rest," by Mr. Jeff Worth is very you receive you must be aware of its popularity.
fine poetry. After reading every space in the issues I am taking them to
You are fortunate to have contributions from E. A. Brinin- the Public Library so others here in the East may know and
stool, but he can write much better poetry than "My Desert enjoy reading something of the loveliness and mysteries of
Fastness," though that is nice work. the desert with its enchantment which to many means a bar-
D. Maitland Bushby deserves considerable credit for "Hell ren waste land.
Tooter Annie," and if he can do so well with such a subject, I love it and only those who have spent some time on the
I'd love to see what he could do with "The Afterglow," glorious desert know and miss its charm when obliged to live
which to many desert lovers is the most beautiful thing they in the East.
ever see in the desert.
Again, congratulations, from the Best wishes for continued success.
Back Seat Driver. Elsa E. Livingston.
JULY, 193
oj\ the CfoJ.5
•"7 UST after sundown on a memor- distance to the north is Thompson, Utah,
V / able evening last summer six of us with wide spans of desert sand along the
By CHARLES KELLY fl~ —all desert fans—arrived at a re- way in either direction. It is said the
mote trading post at the base of a Goulding home is farther from a steam
Some day probably Uncle 1000-foot cliff in southern Utah, a few locomotive than any other white man's
Sam will make a national play- miles north of the Arizona line. We came habitation between the Atlantic and Pa-
ground of Monument Valley by appointment from places separated by cific oceans, from Canada to Mexico.
along the Arizona-Utah border. nearly a thousand miles. Harry Goulding, about 35 years old, is
In the meantime Harry and But it is worth such a trip to sit on the a typical cowboy in looks and disposition.
"Mike" Goulding who operate a front veranda of the home of Harry His wife, whose nickname fits her like a
little trading post in the area, Goulding and his pretty wife "Mike" glove, still appears to be around 18. They
have assumed a voluntary who operate the post, and look across came to the valley 12 years ago and
guardianship over this fantastic Monument Valley where huge monoliths started trading with the Indians in a tent.
desert retreat. Here is a story in weird formation look for all the world Today they have a comfortable home
about a region few Americans like the tombstones of a race of forgotten with running water, tiled bathroom, elec-
ever have visited. gods. tric refrigeration and lights.
They are typically western hosts, these "How do you like our new road?"
Gouldings. From their door it is 200 asked Harry.
miles southwest to the nearest railroad at "Some difference," I replied, "com-
Flagstaff, Arizona, and about the same pared to what it was when I first saw it
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no desire to live elsewhere. Occasionally Two of the many odd formations Perhaps some day the federal govern-
they make the long trek to the railroad to be found in Monument Valley ment will make a national park of
for a visit outside—and soon become im- are shown in this picture. Monument Valley. When that time comes
patient to return to their Monument Val- much of the credit for the pioneering
ley castle. shy and secretive, are friendly enough to work in the vast new national playground
those who come in an attitude of friend- will be due to Harry and Mike Goulding
The visitor wonders how human beings
liness. The Gouldings both speak Nava- —who are today serving as voluntary
can find a livelihood on such a desert.
jo fluently and enjoy the confidence of guardians for this remote scenic outpost.
The fact is that Monument Valley sup-
ports a number of Navajo families, each their Indian neighbors. To their post the
with its flock of sheep and goats. These Navajos bring wool to trade for sugar,
Indians, far remote from the white man's coffee, flour and occasional luxuries. NORTH RIM MONUMENT
civilization, have a purer form of native Even the purchase of a can of peaches NOT TO BE ABOLISHED
culture perhaps than any other group in may consume half a day—but in Monu-
ment Valley time has no meaning. A bill introduced in the present session
the Southwest. A majority of them are of congress to abolish Grand Canyon Na-
descendants of Chief Hoskaninni's band Believing that the district would even- tional monument on the north rim af the
of "irreconcilables" who fled to the valley tually attract many desert lovers, Harry
in the early '60s and for 30 years had Goulding has built miles of road through canyon at Tuweep, Arizona, is not to be
no contact whatever with white men. the beauty spots of this valley. He has pressed for passage according to the state-
Many prospectors, hunting for the lost also assisted in constructing a good coun- ment of Senator Carl Hayden.
Pishlaki silver mine, where Hoskaninni ty highway from Bluff to Kayenta, con- The original proposal was that 150,000
obtained nearly pure silver for ornaments necting with government highways to the acres of the present monument be return-
and jewelry, never returned from their north and south. He built a few cabins ed to public domain, and the remaining
quest. Merrick and Mitchell were killed for the accommodation of travelers and 130,000 acres added to the Grand Can-
in the valley and two of the monuments installed modern conveniences in his yon National park, which is a separate
have been named in their memory. Hos- home. But the traveling public seldom recreational area from the monument.
kaninni Begay, son of the old Chief, still hears of this once inaccessible valley and
lives in the valley which his father once comparatively few visitors have ever seen Introduction of the bill immediately
owned, and was an eyewitness to the it. Harry's cabins are usually occupied stirred a controversy between residents of
death of the two prospectors. Old Hos- • by personal friends of the Gouldings and the north and south sides of the canyon,
kaninni and his brave band of warriors they have many of them in the great des- and Hayden decided that in order to pre-
never surrendered to the white soldiers, ert domain between Salt Lake City and vent further ill feeling the bill should be
but the descendants of his band, although Santa Fe. allowed to die.
Photo by
EMIL EGER
Yuma, Arizona
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Text by
DON ADMIRAL
JULY, 1 9 3 8
Twelve thousand Indians from the northern Arizona tribes are expected to assemble
at Flagstaff this year for the annual Powwow to be held on July 2, 3 and 4.
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could not see through the screen they
made, but without warning from beyond
them came a resounding "OOM!"
w 1 We froze there, senses strained. One
of the red folk, we knew, had pounded
t •• •
1 his tom-tom. Again — "OOM - OOM!
OOM-OOM!" One, then one-two, one-
r & mI two, beats on a wilderness drum.
i 'f a IT 1 9. JK
It seemed to be a signal or overture,
/. M for the rhythm changed and male voices
began chanting "Ah-yah-h-h yah, ah-
YAH-yah," a song of the centuries, so
elemental it penetrated our souls and left
indelible imprint.
Peeking with great caution we saw that
six or eight young men had locked el-
/ bows to form a circle and beside the fire
near them squatted the drummer. His
face was lifted, and he chanted with the
Josephine Jane, selected as the prettiest Navajo girl at last years Poivwow in others as he beat the time, his eyes closed
Flagstajf in rapture. He seemed somehow to roll
JULY, 19
the babies, and laughing hilariously at bicycle, "came to town" for the first time Flagstaff Has Natural Setting
the fun; which shattered in me an illu- in their lives. Several vast reservations Of course other white guests discov-
sion ingrained since childhood—that all are in the wilderness surrounding Flag- ered the nature of the Powwow, its mag-
Indians are stolid and fierce. These staff, in fact Arizona has more Indians— nificence in both color and size. We
fathers were not the scalping braves of mostly holding to their native customs could almost see the mental mechanisms
the story books. They were men with and costumes—than any other state. of enthusiastic Los Angeles business men,
hearts and souls. They had love and gen- Of course the whites did all they could trying to figure out some way of moving
tility, smiles and courtesy and dignity as to entertain the redskins, but they needn't the show bodily to their metropolis.
well. have worried. An Indian is an artist at Phoenix, too, would give a left arm to
Indians at Home in Forest having a good time if the mood strikes have the Indians all come down there,
him. No man, not even the southern and so would Tucson, El Paso and Den-
We watched a woman make the piki negro, can discard his worries more readi- ver. Representatives of these cities saw
bread of the Hopis, which my cartoonist ly than he. These reservation families every hotel, every auto camp, every spare
friend Reg Manning calls diploma bread needed no help from their friend Glad- bedroom and even every spare cot in
because it is paper-thin and rolled like well "Tony" Richardson (who has man- Flagstaff filled by white spectators last
the scroll that students get on commence- aged the last three Powwows). They year, and Flagstaff is isolated in the
ment day. We saw a man making ex- could have a good time dancing and mountains 200 miles from "anywhere."
quisite jewelry of Mexican silver pesos. chanting under the pines, or having a few It is small; three or four hundred extra
We saw four men dribbling fine colored people crowd it to the brim. Now in Los
horse races of their own. Sociability there
sand onto the ground to make their Angeles, we could ballyhoo this thing
is al fresco, ad lib and de luxe.
sacred sand painting. We saw Buffalo nationally and bring in a million—
and Eagle dancers performing for a little Paradise for Souvenir Hunters
But it wouldn't work that way; it
knot of their own friends. We saw We made a few acquaintances during
can't. Flagstaff happens to be favored
mothers swapping woman-talk about the three days, and still value those con-
geographically. The natural charm of
their infant offspring. We saw at least tacts. Our photographs of Josephine
a dozen 'teen-age red girls as shapely and these primitive Indian ceremonies can be
Jane, prettiest Navajo, are prized pages
pretty as any ever turned out on the revealed only in such a place as the pine
in our travel album. Our color moving
stages of Broadway. clad hills of northern Arizona—never on
pictures of the dances, of the camps, of
an artificial stage set up by the Paleface.
The white citizens of Flagstaff con- the fires and the little costumed children
ceived the idea a few years ago of invit- at play, of the two grown boys who had
ing the surrounding Indians to town for a quick fist fight over possession of a
Flagstaff chamber of com-
a friendly barbecue. They thought may- rooster, all make grand "theater" of their merce through its secretary, J.
be four or five hundred red men and own, and we have since exhibited these D. Walkup, has announced that
women might come. movies to awed friends as far east as the after July 1 information bureaus
Actually four or five thousand showed Empire State building. The rugs on our are to be established in the
up! In the mysterious underground tele- living room floor now, and the pots on Monte Vista, Weatherford and
graph of the reservations, word of the our mantle and the bracelets on Adele's Commercial hotels as a service
get-together got around, even to the most arm, are memories of those hours of pow- to visitors in the Flagstaff scen-
remote wickiups, pueblos and hogans. wowing under the pines. ic area. This information de-
Red people who had never seen a rail- Hopi Buffalo dancers on the left, partment is to be under the dir-
road, nor an automobile, nor a locomo- and on the right the Hopi Hoop ection of Miss Dorothy Peach.
tive, much less a telephone, a radio or a dancing team.
JULY, 1938 11
Indians will not go near the
high peak on the Santa Rosa
mountains, but since the con-
struction of a new forestry road
it is easily accessible to those
who have no superstitious fear.
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By RANDALL HENDERSON
C~7"~ROM a Park avenue penthouse to their value, just as the city girl might ring on his finger, the waitress at a road-
I Navajo hogan is a long distance find a dubious market for her turquoise. side restaurant is wearing a beautiful
both geographically and culturally But experts in diamonds are fewer on the bracelet of the same material and a wom-
but there are many things the women in reservation than turquoise buyers in New an of obvious wealth and position is seen
these two places hold in common. Out- York. If she owned the turquoise how- in the lobby of a fine hotel wearing a
standing among their comparative in- ever, she would have no trouble what- necklace of turquoise beads that probably
stincts is their love for jewelry. ever in converting it into anything that once adorned a savage warrior. In the
The New York girl might love the feel she might want in her every day life. She heart of the Indian country nearly ever-
and appearance of a fine old pawn brace- could trade it for so many sheep or so one wears some article of Indian jewelry,
let on her wrist, just as the Navajo wom- many pounds of wool from another In- and half the shop windows carry displays
an, if she had the chance, might thrill to dian, or at the traders she could turn it of it. Traders at their posts give rough
the beauty of a platinum and diamond in for anything from yard goods to flour. or cut turquoise to a Navajo in exchange
bracelet, for both of these were made to It is strange how certain gems have for wool or madeup jewelry. White men
appeal to their sense of beauty and that come to represent the very essence of ma- trade horses, saddles, automobiles and
primitive desire for personal adornment. terial wealth to certain distinct groups of even real estate for turquoise. The white
Here their viewpoints diverge because people. With us it is diamonds; to the people of the Indian country are fast be-
back of each piece of jewelry is a wealth Chinese it is jade; in Burma the ruby as- coming turquoise minded.
of tradition, both as to sentiment and in- sumes great importance and in Ceylon the Sooner or later the average visitor feels
trinsic value. To the New York girl the star sapphire; but nowhere is a single the desire to buy a piece of Indian jewel-
dull blue glow of turquoise in its crudely gem so deeply embedded in the life pat- ry either for personal adornment, or for
wrought silver bracelet, is a thing of tern of a people as is the turquoise to the gift purposes. Thus a demand has been
beauty prized for beauty's sake. To her it Pueblo and Navajo tribes of our arid created for turquoise far in excess of the
has no great intrinsic value. In times of Southwest. In an article to follow I in- normal needs of the Indians and their
financial stress she could not raise money tend to describe in more detail the his- white neighbors. This demand has given
on it as she easily might on her diamonds. torical and religious significance of this rise to widespread and profitable business
To the Indian woman, strangely interesting gem but at present we shall covering Arizona, New Mexico, Califor-
enough, the diamond bracelet would as- confine ourselves chiefly to its impor- nia, Nevada and parts of Colorado. The
sume about the same degree of importance tance as an article of trade and a symbol annual turnover amounts to many mil-
as the turquoise did for the New Yorker. of Indian culture. lions of dollars and affects the lives of
It is true she might encounter an expert The visitor in the Southwest finds tur- thousands of Indians and white traders,
in such matters who would be willing to quoise jewelry much in evidence. The curio store owners and turquoise miners.
purchase her diamonds at a fraction of service station attendant has a turquoise It follows that in an industry of such
JULY, 1938 15
proportions there should develop certain of the various symbols, and often cover and coin silver. He is an excellent judge
unfair practices, the most conspicuous of their jewelry with a meaningless jumble of both and will refuse any stone that has
which is the selling of inferior grades of of as many of these as they can find room been artificially colored or tampered with.
artificially colored turquoise and imita- for. Occasionally, an Indian craftsman This is as much a matter of religion as it
tion Indian jewelry, at reduced prices. will turn out pieces marked with a mix- is honesty for the stone is sacred to him.
The buyer does not always realize that ture of tepees, thunderbirds, horses, His designs also, if he is allowed free
genuine Indian jewelry is the product of crossed arrows, etc, but this usually is choice, show a simple and dignified feel-
hand labor, wrought from coin silver and done at the insistence of a commercial ing for fitness and form. There is noth-
set with gems of actual value. The public dealer who wants all these designs to ing fussy or cheap looking about an au-
can discourage the sale of imitation prod- supply selling points for his clerks. thentic piece.
ucts by keeping in mind a few simple By far the finest Indian jewelry on the There is small supply of what is termed
tests, and by insisting on the genuine In- market today is made either on the reser- "old pawn jewelry" on the market. This
dian products. vation as a private enterprise of the crafts- finds its way into the stores through
In the first place, when dealing with a man, or by Indian workers employed by traders who are at times forced to sell
reputable merchant, price is more or less the better Indian stores who allow the pieces that were pawned but not re-
a criterion of value. Although some copy- silversmith free rein in the designing of deemed by the Indians themselves. This
ing has been done of the fine pieces, most his work. Some of the best Indian crafts- type of jewelry is highly desirable be-
of the imitation jewelry comes within the manship is produced in these store-shops cause it was made by the Indian to wear
price range of 25 cents to $3.00. The because the owner often is able to furnish himself and many times contains gems
customer should realize that there is the Indian with a better grade of tur- that have been handed down for many
something wrong with an "Indian ring" quoise than he could have obtained with generations. It is not uncommon to find
priced at 50 cents. It stands to reason his own limited capital. a bracelet or ring in this type of material
that an Indian cannot buy genuine tur- that is set with old beads. These bits of
quoise and silver, work a ring out by Left to his own resources the Indian
hand and sell it to a dealer at a figure will work only with genuine turquoise Continued on page 24
low enough to retail at such a price. Such
a ring probably is a trinket stamped out
by machine from German silver and set
with glass imitation jewels. If the price
is 75 cents or a dollar, the gem may be
an artificially colored stone set in sterling
silver that has been rolled very thin and
cut by machine. The only hand labor in-
volved is in soldering the parts. This is
done on an assembly line, often with ap-
prentice labor.
The thinness of the silver is another
fairly reliable test of the authenticity of
the product. There is a certain structural
solidity about a genuine Indian ring that
is never found in a substitute. It is true
that in a few instances Indians have been
employed by white manufacturers to make
products from thin silver and then the
output sold as the genuine article. Not
many of the Indians will lend their skill
to this practice, however, and the flimsy
character of the product and poor color-
ing of the stones are sure evidence of de-
ception.
The designs on the imitation jewelry
usually are a glaring advertisement of
their origin. In most cases they look as
if the designer was trying to out-Indian
the Indian. These manufacturing shops
have printed lists showing the meaning
vigilance was the price for safety on the Navajo desert in the
early days. Lofty mesas and stony pinnacles provided numerous obser-
vation points; keen eyes, which never had known the shelter of visor or
hatbrim, probably felt no need foi the aid of tinted binoculars.
From the earliest approach of the Spanish explorers in the 16th century,
until after the Beautiful Mountain Rebellion had been quelled in 1913, the Na-
vajos constantly watched for militant palefaces. The number who thus eluded
Kit Carson in the middle 1860s never has been determined.
Generations of bitter warfare against neighboring desert tribes had sharp-
ened the sense of vigilance. Fear of deserved reprisals from ranchers whose
flocks and herds had been robbed may have nourished the habit of watchful-
ness.
The Desert offers obstructions to visibility—mirages, sandstorms, decep-
tive distances. But it balances the hazards by providing elevated observation
points and by building up the sense of vigilance. Meet the Desert's rules and
it will be your loyal friend; disregard them—and YOU will be the loser!
JULY, 1938 17
Loved by his own people,
trusted and honored by his
white neighbors, 80 - year - old
Henry Chee Dodge is a pivotal
figure in the adjustment of vex-
ing problems which now con-
front the federal Indian bureau
in its dealings with the Navajos.
In this article Mrs. White Moun-
tain Smith gives readers of the
Desert Magazine a close-up pic-
ture of this venerated leader of
the Navajo tribe.
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Vodae,
G.VO.4O
Ey MRS. WHITE MOUNTAIN SMITH
18 T h e DESERT MAGAZINE
with a smile that banished the weariness "No. I never went to school. I picked Black Horse, a hot-blooded young leader,
from his eyes and softened his stern fea- up my education along the road." attacked an agent just outside my store at
tures. And this is the story he told me "But you have always been for the gov- Round Rock and he kept us penned in
there in that dim smoky old room that has ernment schools, haven't you?" the store for two days and nights until
seen 60 years of conflict between his peo- "I have been for everything that other white men came and drove the an-
ple and mine: would help the Navajos learn how to im- gry Indians away. It used to be that way
between white people and the Navajos."
"It has been said that I am not a Nava- prove their lives. At first there were few Throughout all the turbulent years
jc, that my mother was Jemez. (Jemez schools and they were not well taken care Chee Dodge has been a loyal friend to
is a small gueblo on the Santa Ana river of. Some of the children that were taken
the government while looking out at the
in New Mexico.) That is not true. Back there sickened and died without their
parents hearing about it for many months. same time for the rights of his own race.
when the Rebellion came, in 1680, and
the Spanish soldiers were surrounding So the Navajos were afraid of the schools. During his younger years he served as of-
the village many of the Jemez women and Soon they were fooling the school people ficial interpreter for Captain Bonneville
children were sent into the Navajo coun- by sending only the crippled and weak- and for all the early Navajo agents.
try to evade capture. In many cases they minded children there. The strong, Many a rough spot has been smoothed
drove a few sheep with them. My wise boys and girls were hidden out of for white officials by the good judgment
mother's mother, many generations back, sight when school officials came around. and friendship of this great leader. A
came into the Canyon de Chelly region More than once I have gone with the picture in the Wittick collection in the
with those refugees and married a Nava- agent asking my people to let him take Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe
jo. For generations my mother's clan the children to school. Once I remember shows him in his full regalia of fringed
was Navajo. When the Navajos were
fighting with other Indians and with the
Mexican villagers Washington sent Cap-
tain Henry Dodge to stop the trouble and
with him as his interpreter was a Mexi-
can by the name of Juan Casonisis. This
man saw and wanted my mother for his
wife. Captain Dodge gave him permis-
sion to marry her and she lived in the
camp with her husband and the soldiers.
When I was born my father gave me the
name of his honored captain, Henry Chee
Dodge. III -
JULY, 1938
buckskin. Touches of Navajo, however, kitchen is an electric refrigerator. Power ing the jerky without chewing or else tak-
creep out in the massive silver buckle on for this and for the electric lights, is fur- ing it outside to the stone metate and
his belt and the deerskin moccasins. The nished by a Delco plant. When this plant pounding it to a pulp with another stone
handsome man of 30 thus pictured has was installed and it came time to pay for called a memo. I'm passing this on for
given way to the shrewd, dignified old it, there was no talk of "convenient what it's worth.
gentleman of today whose keen eyes miss terms." Chee went to his desk, a small The chief pride of Chee's life is his
nothing. child's desk which he bought from a mail talented son, Thomas Dodge. Perhaps
One of his descendants, Charley Shir- order house, and calmly clipped enough 35 years old, his dark hair already is
ley, has painted a life-size portrait of coupons from Liberty Bonds to settle the turning gray. The younger Dodge pos-
Chee Dodge in his Scout's uniform and it account! sesses a keen mind and the poise of a nat-
hangs in the place of honor at Window He does not live in the cottage . Per- ural leader. Since his mother is a full-
Rock, central agency of the Navajos. I haps he does not like the color of the up- blooded Navajo, he really is more Indian
doubt if there is a Navajo above ten years holstering on the furniture since he has than his father. He was educated in east-
of age who does not know of, and honor conscientiously covered it with Pendleton ern colleges and prepared to fight the
this man. rugs. Anyway he lives in his hogan in battles—legal battles—of his people. He
In the passing years he has accumulated the back yard. is the recognized attorney for the Navajo
much of this world's goods. His name is Once, when he joined his guests at tribe, and assistant superintendent of the
among those of bank directors and stock breakfast in the cottage, jerky was served reservation. In him his father lives again.
holders in big corporations. His flocks with eggs in place of bacon. Canned In these troubled times among the
graze over thousands of acres; his safety grapefruit and sweet buns were also Navajos when they are concerned over
deposit box holds notes and mortgages. served, but after one guest had undertak- the reduction of flocks; over soil erosion
He could buy and sell many of his white en to consume some of the jerky there control; over the government require-
friends. His poorer Navajo brothers go was room for nothing else. Anyone ment that parents furnish the children
to him in time of need. And yet he lives should know that the longer jerky is with school clothing; over half a hun-
very simply as befits one who is trying to chewed the more jerky there is to be dred things that the well meaning admin-
set a good example. At Crystal, about chewed! There was nothing for it but to istration is striving to do to aid the Nava-
25 miles from Canyon de Chelly he has remove the huge wad as gracefully as pos- jos, Chee stands as the pivotal figure.
had a trading post and home for at least sible or else suffocate in silence. Later From him the white race learns the tem-
50 years. And here for the comfort of Chee laughingly advised either swallow- per of his people; from him the Navajos
his guests he has built a modern cottage. Barbecr/e at the constitutional as- absorb patience and understanding, and
Overstuffed furniture fills the sitting sembly held by the Navajos at Win- his farseeing mind will be one of the
room, the bedroom has a huge brass bed- dow Rock, Arizona, last year. Photo principal factors in bringing the contro-
stead and a dainty slipper chair. In the by Indian Service. versy to an equitable solution.
S~X UT in the Joshua tree forest sold his manufacturing jewelry business
f ~T which extends from Antelope val- LOCATION in Los Angeles and moved out to a Mo-
^ " ^ ley in Southern California to Vic- jave desert homestead in which he had an
torville and beyond, visitors from many The Chamberlain homestead is interest. He went there with no other
parts of the world are beating a pathway located on the edge of Mirage val- thought than to regain his health.
to the doorstep of a man who has created ley near the paved road -which con-
nects Palmdale with Victorville. At He built a neat little cabin and garage
something new in the art of wood-carv- and made himself comfortable — and
ing. the road sign ivhich reads "Palm-
dale 35 miles, Victorville 18 hasn't been in Los Angeles since. He
If some one told you that the wood of miles," turn north on a dirt road a lived there five years before he learned,
a Joshua tree could be used in the manu- half mile and then west a half mile. quite by accident, that all about him was
facture of beautiful and durable bracelets, a potential source of wealth.
picture frames, jewel caskets, lampstands On the desk of a business office in Vic-
and countless other ornamental and use- even make good firewood. However, one torville, he saw an odd block of polished
ful novelties, I can almost guess your re- man has discovered a value in Joshua wood, used as a paperweight. Each time
ply. Joshua wood, to those who have trees which others have overlooked—and he returned to the office he was attracted
ever taken the trouble to examine it, has therein lies the source of this story. to this bit of wood, and finally learned it
a pulpy fibrous texture which does not Twenty years ago W. A. Chamberlain came from near the root of a dead Joshua
JULY, 1938 21
tree—a tree evidently killed by a wood- His homestead is neat and clean inside
boring worm or insect—and that there and out, and a well kept cactus garden
are many such trees in the Joshua forest. surrounds the cabin. A five-hole golf
Nature, in an effort to combat the at- course is open to all visitors and there is
tacks of this pest, creates a wood sub- a prize awaiting the golfer who first
stance harder than mahogany. That por- makes the little course in par.
tion of the trunk which has become hard- Those who complain that there are few
ened is invariably full of wood borer birds on the desert would revise their
holes. story if they visited the Chamberlain gar-
"I have never found one of the borers," den. There is a morning and evening
said Mr. Chamberlain, "but occasionally concert each day from the flocks of
I run across a thin shell lining in one of winged pets which patronize the Cham-
the tunnels, evidently left there by the berlain bird fountains and nest in the
bug or worm that did the damage."
cactus and other shrubs. In May this year
In one of the rooms of his cottage this a single cholla cactus contained the nests
craftsman has his workshop. It is located of three cactus wren families, each with a
on the south side of the house and glassed brood of baby wrens.
in to provide comfortable working quar-
ters during the winter months. Here he Mr. Chamberlain has some data for
manufactures candlesticks, gavels, but- those who are curious as to the rate of
tons, rings, table lamps, bookends and a growth of the Joshua tree. A 14-foot tree
long list of gift articles. Many of them near his cottage was 18 inches high when
are decorated with hammered copper and he transplanted it to the yard 20 years
etched plates, and in some cases they are Table lamp and shade produced in ago. Nine years ago he took some of
hand painted. Mr. Chamberlain does all the Chamberlain workshop. the seed from this tree and started a nur-
the work, even to the making of the brass sery. The seed all sprouted and today
and copper hinges for his trinket boxes, several of these 9-year-old trees are to be
U. S. Army flyers from March field. The
and the tinting on the lampshades. He is
air pilots spent several days at the Cham- seen in the yard. They range from 10 to
a master craftsman in every detail of the
berlain homestead while a motor was be- 15 inches in height. Offshoots from the
operation.
ing changed in a huge bomber forced roots of the older trees grow much more
The reputation of this desert jeweler down in the Chamberlain back yard. rapidly than seedlings, however. One 5-
has spread to the far places of the earth. There are signatures in the guest book
He has a large clientele in Hollywood, year-old offshoot measures nearly three
from Japan and many other foreign coun- feet.
and only a few months ago received a tries, and it contains names which appear
visit from Arthur Jarratt of the British often in the newspaper headlines. As we were leaving the cottage Mr.
Gaumont Film company who left an or- Chamberlain told us of the man who
der which was filled and sent on its way He lives alone but this desert craftsman
came out to visit him and after listening
across the Atlantic. has not gone back to the primitive. He
shaves daily, and visitors generally find rather indifferently to the story about
Recently he completed a beautiful jewel him clad in a freshly laundered shirt with Joshua wood and the borer holes and in-
casket. A similar casket is in possession necktie and creased trousers. A wind- specting some of the finished products,
of Bishop Cantwell of Los Angeles. Its mill generates electricity for a radio exclaimed:
mate reposes in the study of a Catholic which keeps him in touch with the news "Isn't it a pity they are so full of
priest in Ennis, Ireland. of the outside world. holes!"
Visitors are amazed when they see the
kit of tools with which this ex-jeweler
does his work. The only power available
for the workshop is the ancient car in the
back yard. Mr. Chamberlain jacks up a
rear wheel, attaches a sanding block to
the hub and then starts the motor. That
is the closest thing there is to a lathe on
the homestead, and it serves only for
roughing in some of the larger pieces.
Most of the fine work is done with an old
saw and a wood rasp, plus some polish-
ing materials. Beautifully hammered cop-
per is created with tools that might have
been reclaimed from a junk yard. But
behind these tools there is an artist who
has patience and imagination.
Mr. Chamberlain invites each visitor to
sign a guest register in which are recorded
the names and impressions of a group of
ALL YEAR
PLEASURE
If he is a true disciple of Isaac Walton, he will unpack his fish-
ing rig and seek a place on the wharf or get a seat on one of the
many charter or open-party boats which make regular trips from San
Diego, Long Beach and Santa Monica to the Coronado islands. Big
time fishermen go in for gamey sword-fish these months. The several
good barges at Redondo, Hermosa, and south offer opportunities for
the nimrod to pose before a camera with a good catch.
Yachtsmen are increasing along the southern California coast.
A generation of young sailors is being developed at Newport where
"snowbirds" are the popular craze. There is a protected bay where the
sport may be practiced by the rankest amateur in safety, and there
is the ocean for "Blue Water" skippers.
If the vacationist is not bent on active recreation, there are
restful hotels and cottages facing the bay and the ocean where he
can drink in the cool salt air, and, too, there is fishing aplenty.
JULY, 1 9 3 8 23
INDIAN JEWELRY
Boats to Catalina
NIGHTLY
Leave Long Beach 7 p.m.
PRIZES Continued jrom page 16
turquoise are drilled and usually mounted
with the holes visible. Most of this class
Leave Avalon 1 a.m.
IV2 hour crossing.
TO AMATEUR of jewelry is found only in the best stores
and brings rather high prices.
FARE $2.50 ROUND TRIP. PHOTOGRAPHERS A good guarantee of value in old pawn
Boats for Charter—Live Bait or in fact any Indian jewelry is to trade
Fishing Boats.
Daily starting 3 a.m.—Fare $2. with a dealer who has an established rep-
More and better pictures are utation. These men are interested in their
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LONG BEACH
zine office each month as in- terial they handle. They have pride in
creasing numbers of camera their standing and want to give honest
fans are finding here a prize value.
market for their offerings. These
contests are open to all ama- A majority of traders and curio dealers
"THE PRIDE OF LONG BEACH" teurs and the range of subjects are in the business because they like it
includes close-ups of plant and and they love the things they are selling.
animal life, landscapes, rock They would much rather sell you one
formations, unusual personal genuine piece than a half dozen fakes.
10 Minutes jrom the Ocean pictures, and in fact anything Many honest dealers are forced to keep a
on or of the desert. case of cheap imitations to meet unscru-
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Composition is no less impor- The buyer himself asks for a fake when
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tant than subject. One contest- he says "Well haven't you something for
MR. AND MRS. P. D. STOGKWELL ant missed one of the prizes in about 50 cents or a dollar?"
3932 Long Beach Blvd. the May contest because a light
LONG BEACH, CALIF.
colored o b j e c t w a s photo-
graphed against a light back-
ground — no contrast. Focus, Desert Trading Post
grain and other fine points of
GEM CUTTING—Send your rough desert
photography enter into the gemstones to V. H. Wallace, Box 344, El
judging. Centro, Calif., for expert facet and cabochon
TAILOR Prizes are $5.00 for first and cutting and polishing. Gems and gem min-
$3.00 for second place winners, erals for sale. Prices on request.
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INVESTIGATION WELCOME 5—Pictures will be returned San Pedro St., Los Angeles, Calif.
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JULY, 193 25
Refrigeration and
Air Conditioning
-fjete and ihete
Systems . . . O N THE DESERT
ARIZONA Phoenix . . .
installed and repaired To plan "mutual protection" against in-
o Tucson . . . creased use of Colorado river water for irri-
Dr. Rodney Trueblood of Glendale was gation in Mexico, representatives of the
elected governor of the 21st district, Ari- seven basin states have been invited to meet
General Machine Work zona Lions clubs, at the 15 th annual con- here on June 22. Secretary Donald S. Scott
of the Colorado river commission for Ari-
vention here. Delegates picked Holbrook as
Gear Cutting 1939 convention city.
zona warns that complications are inevitable
if the United States "stands idle while Mex-
Phoenix . . . ico puts the water to beneficial use." Scott
declares 424,000 acres in the Mexican delta
The Dons Club of Phoenix on May 9 at are under cultivation or can be cultivated
junction of Highway 60 and the Apache from existing canals. Additional 800,000
JULY, 1 9 3 8 27
"DESERT
STEVE"
DESERT PLACE NAMES . . . Compiled by TRACY M. SCOTT . . .
RAGSDALE
For the historical data contained in this department, the Desert Magazine is indebted to
invites you the research work done by Miss Scott; to the late Will C. Barnes, author of "Arizona
Place Names"; to Frances Rosser Brown of New Mexico and to Hugh O'Neil of Ogden,
to visit Utah.
NEW MEXICO
CUCHILLO (koo chee' yo) Sierra county
Sp. "a single-bladed knife." May also
EFFICIENCY CaaleAl
as low as
mean one of six main feathers in a hawk's
tail. AT A P R I C E
PUERTO DE LUNA (pwer' to day km' ah)
Guadalupe county
YOU CAN $43.25
Means literally "port of the moon."
TECOLOTE (tay ko low' tay) installation
San Miguel county
From the Aztec word tecolotl, the ground
TO P A Y ! extra
owl. A Papago village in southwest Puna
county, Arizona, at one time.
JULY, 1938 29
of Hovenweep National monument. This is
SQUARE the correct title of the picture shown below.
E. Boyd Hall of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
TOWER identified the picture and won the cash
prize offered by the Desert Magazine in
May for the best letter of description. The winning manuscript giving
the location of this Indian ruin is printed herewith.
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c£t«ch.<i W
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Magazine for May evidently was taken in The ruins are thought to have been
the Hovenweep National monument of built by prehistoric Indians in their late
Ftnoui tor COMFORT southeastern Utah, with the ruin called period (Pueblo III) when their cultural
SERVICE. CONVENIENCE the "Square Tower" in the foreground. level was at its peak, as indicated by pot-
tery, weaving, etc. Whether drought or
B I L T M O R E H O T E L These ruins may be reached from Cor- hostile nomadic tribes forced the aban-
tez, 30 miles to the east in Colorado. Cor- donment of these dwellings, cannot be
tez may be reached over Highway 666 stated definitely. Scientists have pon-
from Gallup, New Mexico (137 miles), dered over the purpose for which the
or from Denver over Highway 160 by "Square Tower" was built. Its location in
way of Walsenburg (advisable only in the bottom of the arroyo makes it neces-
summer). There are also roads running sary to discard the defense theory. One
south from U. S. 50 to Cortez. explanation is that it served as a stone
While in the Hovenweep area the visi- age astronomical observatory. Pagan cere-
tor should also see Yucca House, Aztec monials may have centered around this
Ruins, Mesa Verde, Chaco, Canyon de tower. The best answer is only a guess.
HOTELDEANZA
on the border of
Mariana Land
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OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY
BOOKS —a monthly review of the best literature
of the desert Southwest, past and present.
of ike Qy oulnwesiern aJJeseri RUTH M. UNDERHILL TELLS of the major groups, pointing out differ-
STORY OF PUEBLO INDIANS ences in the economic life and customs
CALIFORNIA DESERTS among the villages which would not be
EDMUND C. JAEGER /SOUTHWESTERN history really apparent to the casual visitor. It is a
A happy combination, this — a S begins with corn. That was many readable and informative book, by a
book about the Colorado and Mo- centuries before the white man writer well qualified to tell this story.
jave Deserts of California which came to America. No one knows whence
the casual visitor can read with
The publisher is J. J. Augustin of New
the corn came, nor the exact period when York, and the volume is illustrated with
pleasure and yet one that the scien-
tific student can most profitably it became the principal item of food—but human interest photographs taken by
use. to the Indian tribes of the great plateau Lilian J. Reichard. R. H.
Illustrated, 209 pages $2.00 region of Arizona and New Mexico—the
Pueblo Indians we call them today—the
DESERT OF THE PALMS beginning of the cultivation of corn was YALE PUBLISHES NEW
DON ADMIRAL as epochal an event as the invention of BOOK OF INDIAN FOLKLORE
The Desert Magazine's contributor the steam engine or the harnessing of ORIGIN LEGENDS OF THE NA-
on desert botany presents this new electricity to modern civilization. VAHO ENEMY WAY, By Father Be-
56-page booklet, describing the Thus does Ruth M. Underhill in
Colorado desert of southern Cali- rard Haile, published by Yale University
fornia, especially the colorful area FIRST PENTHOUSE DWELLERS OF Press, New Haven, 320 pp. illustrated.
around Palm Springs. AMERICA offer a partial explanation of This is No. 17 of the Yale University
Illustrated, paper bound .... 50c the fact that certain tribes of American Publications in Anthropology. It is one
Indians built houses of mud and rock and of the monographs issued as the result of
DEATH VALLEY: THE FACTS attached themselves permanently to the researches in the field of Anthropology
W. A. CHALFANT land while others of the prehistoric which are conducted or sponsored by the
An absorbing account of the phys- groups on American soil continued to Department of Anthropology in the grad-
ical and historical facts about this lead the life of nomads. uate school of Yale, the Department of
famous sink, told by the only man The "penthouse dwellers" discussed by Anthropology of the Peabody Museum,
who is qualified to write this book. the author include five general groups— and the Department of Anthropology of
Illustrated, third edition, Hopi, Zuni, Keres, and the two Tanoan
160 pages $2.75 the Institute of Human Relations.
groups, the Tewa and the Taos. The The present volume gives the original
Hopi occupy three pueblos in northeast- text and an excellent translation of this
INDIAN TRIBES ern Arizona, and the others are distrib-
OF THE SOUTHWEST Navaho Origin Legend. The introductory
uted over northwestern New Mexico in remarks are vitally important, and the
DAMA MARGARET SMITH more than a score of villages.
If you have read Mrs. White
whole book is a most valuable contribu-
They had developed a workable plan tion to the subject of folklore.
Mountain Smith's human and brill- of communal life in which religion and
iant articles in The Desert Maga- JULIA M. SETON.
zine, you will want this book, a government were practically synonymous
vivid, picturesque and useful hand- long before Columbus came to America,
book on our desert Indians. and have clung tenaciously to their native
Maps and sketches,
160 pages 1.50
traditions and customs in spite of inva-
sions by alien enemy, the missionary ef- Legends of Gems
forts of clergy, and the well-meaning but A 124 page book describing strange be-
THE CACTUS AND ITS HOME not always helpful efforts of a paternal liefs regarding astrological significance
FORREST SHREVE of gemstones, incorporated with a re-
white man's government.
Dr. Shreve, as Director of the Car- vised edition of "Gems—how to know
negie Institution's Desert Labora-
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