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Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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Chemehuevis Indians. (Pah-Utahs.) portion of the great Pah-Utah nation, and have a language entirely distinct from the tribes bywhich they are surrounded. In other respects, however, they assimilate to their neighbor*,with whom they live in amity. Agriculture is their main pursuit; hunting an occasionalpastime. Their bow is characteristic of the tribe to which they belong, being of bois-darc,elegantly curved, bound with sinews, and frequently ornamented at one end by the skin or rattle
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> o INDIANS OF EIO COLORADO.—ORNAMENTS AND DRESS. 33 of a snake. They are less majestic in figure than are the Mojaves and Yurnas ; their eyes aresmall; their hair is clipped in front, and usually gathered behind by a narrow band, fromwhich it hangs loosely down the back. Their native dress consists simply of a bark petticoatfor women, and a breech-cloth for men, each girded upon the loins by a cord. Infants arebound to aboard, and have over their heads a cradle-like cover made of osier twigs. Thr.hands are not confined, however,, and the constraint does not seem irksome to the child.Partly to this practice may be ascribed the erect and faultless form for which the ColoradoIndians are distinguished. Plate 25 represents Mojaves and the style in which they paint themselves. Their pigmentsare ochre, clay, and probably charcoal, mingled with oil. Blue marks tattooed upon a womanschin denote that she is married. The skirt consists of two distinct articles ; the back part beingcomposed

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