Show THE NA NAVAJO NAV-AJO VAJO WOMAN Chicago Chronicle The Navajo Xa woman who has made her tribe tho the most famous of all living Indian n races b by means or of her great and excellent Invention the Navajo blanket occupies a n. social position of ot great Independence Her property rights are carefully rs respect respect- ct ed cd She owns much of the wealth of ot the tribe and her children belon belong to her alone aloneA A v woman oman may have havo hundreds hundred of ot sheep when she marries and not one becomes becom the tho property of oC her husband Descent is la traced through h tho the female line It Is Js a survival of ot th the primitive The Navajo Na woman has no permanent home The progress of ot the tribe has been ben greatly Impeded b by Its dark superstition that every death Is caused directly by the devil and that evil 11 spirits linger about the dead bod body bed The Is never nover occupied again The corpse Is burned In tho the floor and the house pulled down over It Jt and a t Navajo Na would woul freeze before ho would make n n. fire Oro upon tho logs of or ono one of ut these deserted heaps hoops So the Navajo hogan Is a poor temporary affair a mere mere- circular hut of ot logs 1015 and ston stones 9 with a holo bob In tho the roof root for tho U and a n. blanket for the door In Inthe tho the summer tho the Navajo woman loves lovS to more Into tho the brush made of ot greasewood boughs There she sets up her nor loom In tho the gha shadow ow of ot tho the rocks and lives CS In tho the open air nit nil summer |