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Show 258 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Photograph by O. C. Havens A HOPI HAIRDRESSER Unmarried girls among the Hopi part their hair in the middle from the forehead to the nape of the neck, and arrange it in a large whorl above each ear, a very distinctive style symbolic of the squash-blossom. However, as the girls become educated this picturesque fashion is fast disappearing. Those members of The Society who have followed the Pueblo Bonito explorations will recall that several types of masonry are visible in the ruin. The oldest and crudest of these is confined to the north and northwest sections; it is characteristic of a separate settlement of long standing and of irregular outline-a settlement which formed the nucleus of the great, terraced village we now call Pueblo Bonito. The inhabitants of this older section were the original Bonitians. They formed a somewhat decadent community, since but few additional rooms were erected by them after their number had been increased by a larger group of near-strangers, who, having arrived by invitation, began to rebuild the town to suit their own fancies NEWCOMERS WERE MASTERFUL PROGRESSIVES Abandoned dwellings of the old village were razed and replaced; in fact, the new structures, following more or less definite plans, actually absorbed and encompassed the older settlement. These newcomers were progressives; they were masterful. To them we owe the far-famed Pueblo Bonito of later years, the Pueblo Bonito whose marvelous ruins now form a pass-key to that wealth of prehistory locked in the sands of our Southwestern States; whose very name-the City Beautiful-signifies the admiration in which it was held by another people living in another age. These late arrivals were skillful potters, master builders, hewers of stone and wood. They erected retaining walls around the village refuse piles just to keep the potsherds and ashes from scattering too widely. They went unknown distances to fetch, upon their bare shoulders, the hundreds of heavy pine logs required in the houses they piled one upon another. They changed, altered, and enlarged their pueblo with utter disregard for the physical labor involved. What they willed to do they did. They even had |