L.R.298.b.2, 2(73)

Genre: Portrait Photography

Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait of Pachílawa, a Walapai chief: 'In Arizona there live, in whole or in part, six tribes of the Yuman family, whose physiographic surroundings divide them into two groups which can well be termed mountain tribes and river tribes: the Walapai, Havasupai, and Yavapai, or Apache-Mohave, comprising the one, the Mohave, Yuma, and Maricopa the other. Four of these live well within Arizona territory; the other two make their home on opposite banks of the Colorado, thus being in part within California. This division, too, is more than geographic, for the mountain tribes differ widely in physique, in many customs, and in manner of living, from their brothers in the lower altitudes, being small in stature, sinewy, and energetic. Of the three the Walapai tribe is the most numerous, having a population of about five hundred. So far as is known, they have always occupied the pine-clad mountains for about a hundred miles along the southern side of the Grand Cañon in northwestern Arizona. It is from the pines they take their name, 'Pinery People,' for hwal is the Yuman word for pine, which, combined with their word for people, produces Walapai, or, as the Spaniards spelled it, Hualapai.' (Curtis, Edward S., 'The North American Indian', volume 2, p.91)