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Show 11 happily, until nine in the morning, as docile and affable as the preceding ones. These people here have much heavier beards than the Lagunas. They have holes through the cartilage of their noses and they wear as an ornament a little polished bone of deer, fowl, or some other animal thrust through the hole. In features they look more like Spaniards than like the other Indians hitherto known in America from whom they are different in the foregoing respects. They speak the same language as the Timpan-ogotzis. At this river and place of Santa Ysabel this tribe of bearded Indians begins. It is they, perhaps, who gave rise to the report of the Spaniards that they live on the other side of the Rio del Tizon which according to several coinciding reports is the Rio Grande, formed from the Rio de los Dolores and others which joins the Navajo.7 The above passage is interesting for many reasons. One can speculate on the beards which are more characteristic of Europe rather than of America, and a possible explanation of both the beards and the features which appeared more Spanish than other Indians may have been evidence that there was Spanish blood there. In an ensuing period after Escalante, it is known that the weak and defenseless i tribes were used as sources for slaves for the mines of Chihuahua. \ Could Utah have been a gathering area? Could the blood of Spain have been left in the tribe? The extant photograph of Kanosh suggests that his features were not those normally observed among the Utes. Further, his relatives, Wakara and Arapeen, show features which appear more European when compared to those^of other Utes. Carvalho's painting of Wakara shows one who could pass as European, and it is ^Ibid., pp. 183-18U. |
