he back of the shoulder
and tied in a kno
t. A very important item was cotton
. blast
All of the wild plants were ut
ilized and especially when
culti
vated crops gave out. There were ma
ny in the valley
growing wild along t
he fertile banks of the !]^o de Los Fr
ijoles.
There were
horsemint,
dandelions and prickly pears
from the round leaf cactus.
frijoles, a h
idden valley in the new w
orld Even the liall cactus might have been eaten. And surely many of these were stored for later use. Little did these primitive dwellers know what might befall them. Raids by hostile bands often destroyed their fields. Fire might have been set to the roofs of their homes. A period of drought could have been one of their worries even here in the Valley of the Tyuonyi. Mother Earth gave the Indian everything. She lavishly produced juniper and pinon wood for fires, choke-cherry, juniper and oak for stout bows. And there was hard wood for the foreshafts of arrows and cane for the hind shafts to which turkey feathers were fastened as guides. She prod