Abstract
Canon City, Colo., June 15, 1903. To the Editor: —In connection with the observations of McClanahan on Gros Ventres and Assiniboine Indians, cited by Dr. Gould inThe Journal, May 30, page 1483, I may mention that a similar custom prevails with the Havasupai Indians who live along the Colorado River in northern Arizona. I have seen these Indians, when so far from their river environment that the only water obtainable was that in a car sent for railroad purposes, improvise a tepee by using their blankets and some poles, and in this take the sweat-bath by pouring water on hot stones placed therein. Then, when covered with perspiration, they emerged into the open air where they lounged about regardless of the chill air. And once, it being suggested that such methods would kill a white man, one of the bucks informed us that it was heap good medicine for
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