Prelude to Summer

This issue, our prelude to summer, tells in pictures and drawings the story of our Indians and their land. We have selected for our subjects those tribes the traveler through the West finds the most interesting. Summertime is the best time to visit our northern Indians-the Navajos, Hopis and Havasupais. If you are out this way in August you can see the age-old snake dances at the Hopi villages, and if you travel our highways of enchantment in July you can attend the Pow Wow at Flagstaff, one of the most spectacular Indian shows in the west. You could spend the whole summer traveling through our Indian lands and every day would bring new surprises and scenic pleasures. And if you are out West in September you'll never regret your visit to the Navajo Fair at Window Rock.

We have been knee-deep in Indian pictures preparing for this issue. Out of a collection of about 700 we give you what we consider the cream of the crop. Our cover, by Jack Northrop of Prescott, is a study of a Navajo woman, showing all the characteristics of her race:patience, simplicity, and marks of the burning wind. There is something about her that bespeaks the sandy expanse of her land, and the honest nobility of her people.

We feature, as you will see, a portfolio of Hopi studies by Forman Hanna of Globe. Mr. Hanna, by profession, is a pharmacist, by diversion a photographer. Each of the prints we have reproduced have hung in salons all over the world, and it is no exaggeration when we say that his work is better known in London and New York than it is in his own home town.

Mr. Hanna first went into the Hopi country a quarter of a century ago. No surfaced roads or easy riding automobiles were his lot. He went in by horseback, and his pictures, truly classics, were gotten the hard way. He nosed about the Hopi villages many a long summer day, pointing his camera here and there sacrificing nothing for the proper effect. In those days the photographer was an unusual sight to the Hopis and to get his pictures he had to use diplomacy, tact, patience and that most effective means of all bribery. For meritorious work with the camera he was honored by selection as a Fellow in the Royal Photographic Society of London. That accounts for the "FRPS" after his name, a high honor in international photography.

Possibly the quaintest and most curious Indian tribe in Arizona is the Havasupai, living in a small corner of the Grand Canyon. This little tribe lives between the high walls of the Canyon, and many glorious water falls lend music to their existence.

Our sketches for this issue were prepared for us by Ross Santee, who lends such excellent value to the magazine he should be on the payroll. Ross, who is director of the Arizona Writers Project, W. P. A., supervised the Arizona Guide, which appeared this past month from the presses of Hasting House. We'll tell you more about that next month. Now we want to give credit to the Arizona Writers Project for use of their voluminous Indian files in garnering bits of information here and there for this issue.We sincerely hope this Indian pictorial issue pleases you. It is a departure from our regular presentation, for herein we try in our poor way to tell a story only in pictures. It has been made possibly only by the sustained interest in Arizona Highways of a number of excellent photographers.-R. C.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF GOOD ROADS BY ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT RAYMOND CARLSON, EDITOR CIVILIZATION FOLLOWS THE IMPROVED HIGHWAY ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR 10C PER COPY PRESCOTT COURIER, INC.PRESCOTT. ARIZONA ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, PHOENIX, ARIZONA CONCEIVED AND PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA R. T. (BOB) JONES, GOVERNOR OF ARIZONA ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION J. M. PROCTER, Chairman, Tucson. R. E. MOORE, Vice Chairman, Jerome. KEMPER MARLEY, Commissioner, Phoenix. E. H. MCEACHREN, Commissioner, Miami.

SPENCER S. SHATTUCK, Commissioner, Bisbee. M. L. WHEELER, Secretary, Phoenix. A. R. LYNCH, Assistant Attorney General, Special Counsel.

W. R. HUTCHINS, STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER For june nineteen hundred forty ARIZONA HIGHWAYS presents:

A Story In Pictures

With Drawings by Ross Santee

Layout and Design by George M. Avey