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western American, and we promptly suborned him as our guide. With an
act of proprietorship he led us up a curious narrow street between low blank-
faced mud walls, under the edge of flat-roofed fortress like houses and
turned a corner-and behold we were in a foreign land-a land as remote
as Morocco, as sun-smit as the Soudan. Low walls of gray mud shut out the
world we knew-the world of the gringo. With incredible swiftness we re-
treated into the past. It was as if the boy were some mighty conjurer.
A tall, powerful and graceful woman met us in the street. She carried a
huge jug of water on her head. A thin white mantle covered her head and
shoulders. A short black skirt belted at the waist with a vivid red sash draped
her knees. Her feet were clad in tiny moccasins while about her ankles
bound linen formed a sort of white boot or legging. She moved largely,
with free step, like a strong man. A little farther on we met a young girl
fonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, Nambi, Tesuque, and Hano. Isleta is a Tigua pueblo, as
are Taos, Picuris, Sandia, and others. Both groups, however, are of the Tanoan linguistic
stock. See Frederick Webb Hodge (ed.), Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico,
Part 2 (Washington, D.C., 910o), 737-738, 747-748.rti
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