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Show 238 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Photograph by O. C. Havens AN EXCAVATED ROOM IN PUEBLO BONITO The Bonitians were expert workmen, for their mud plaster has clung to the walls for centuries. Note the figure in the passageway which leads to another room. turies, but fragments have come to light from time to time-plain white fragments, fragments with colored designs and much-patched fragments. Sandals were plaited from split leaves of the yucca or woven from its tough fibers. Baskets of many shapes and sizes were built up, coil upon coil, by skillful fingers. BONITIAN GIRLS ROUGED THEIR CHEEKS A Pueblo Bonito home, for all the simplicity of its furnishings, was a busy place. It was dwelling and workshop combined. And all the various materials required for each day's activities had to be gathered in the proper season for each, prepared and stored for future use. Whether at work or play, the Bonitian women, as well as their menfolk, sought to improve upon the imperfections of Nature. They brightened their bronzed cheeks with a little touch of rouge. Not the Princess Pat, the Tangerine, the Ashes of Roses, so popular in the parks to-day, but good, old, reliable brick-red rouge, dug from the thin lenses of compact clay underneath the sandstone cliffs. Our Zufii boys begged every fragment we came upon in the excavation and laughingly streaked their faces with it; Navajo horsemen frequently rode into camp as |