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ter had boots of network to which turkey feathers
were skilfully fastened as covering. The sandals
found in the cliff-houses are variously woven from
rushes or agave strips, or maybe a plain sole of leather
with the toe cord, but those worked of cotton showing
ingenious designs are worthy of the highest admira
tion.
Those clans of the cliff-people and the clans from the
south that congregated in Tusayan centuries ago were
sandal wearers, while the resident clans and those
coming from the north, perhaps bands of the Ute, —
were moccasin wearers and impressed their language
and moccasins on the Hopi. This was much to the ad
vantage of the Hopi, granting that they had never
thought of better protection than sandals from the
biting winter.
Everyone who visits Tusayan will bring away as a
souvenir some of the work of Nampeo, the potter who
lives with her husband Lesu in the house of her
parents at Hano, the little Tewa village on the great
Walpi mesa near the gap. The house belongs to
Nampeo 's mother according to Pueblo property right,
wherein she and her husband, both aged and ruddy
Tewa, with their children and grandchildren live
amicably as is usual among the Peaceful People. The
house below the mesa, topped with a glowing red iron
"Government" roof, is Nampeo 's, who thus has two
houses, but she spends most of her time in the parental
dwelling at Hano.