This Hopi girl is dressed in native costume of finely woven woolen cloth, with leggings of dressed buckskin. The necklace is made of beaten silver, set with turquoise, and is very valuable. The dressing of the hair in whorls denotes maidenhood and is not used after marriage

The pueblo of Walpi in northern Arizona is the best known of the Hopi villages. Built on the rocky point of a high mesa, there is a wonderful view of the Painted Desert. Countless feet have worn away the solid rock of the trail over which the woman is carrying water from the plains five hundred feet below

The collection of poles and canvas in the foreground is a summer camp of the Navajo Indians. In winter they occupy conical mud huts called "hogans." Cañon de Chelly is one of the most magnificent of the Arizona cañons, with walls of red sandstone in places rising to a height of a thousand feet. The immense height of the cañon can be gaged by the approaching group of horsemen, some hundreds of yards away.