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In the region lying between the Rio Verde, which is about the limit of the Apache country and the Rio Colorado, two tribes, few in number, and of the lowest type of humanity, are met with. These are the Walapais (Hualpais) and the Yampas. The latter chiefly inhabit little strips of marshy land at thebottom of the deep canons, which debouch upon the Colorado Canon. Both tribes were encountered by our parties about the 35th parallel; they are comparatively harmless, and much resemble the Pai-utes of the Great Basin. The valleys of the Colorado, from the end of the Black Canon almost to the head of the gulf, are inhabited by Indian tribes who occupy an intermediate position between the semicivilized Pueblo Indians and the wild Apache races. They have for some time kept peace with the whites; but contact with them appears to be rapidly hastening their extinction.
Mojave Indians
As there is no special interest attaching to these savages I will leave the accompanying woodcut, copied from a photograph taken at Fort Mojave, to speak for itself. The Mojaves are the largest tribe, and once numbered ten thousand.
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adapted from A. W. Bell
"On the Native Races of New Mexico"
1869 (Journal of the Ethnological Society of London)
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