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Recently, the
Papago Indians have

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started making little figurines
out of straw and bits of cloth

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that they might have
around the house.

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Historically, I don't think
there's any precedent for that

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in their culture.

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It's simply something they
make to sell to tourists.

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And they're really rather
interesting things.

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And I bought one at Kitt
Peak which is the best

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place to buy these things.

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Because, well, I don't want
to give you business advice.

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But at any rate,
it was a little--

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and it's mounted on
a platform of cholla

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and there's two figures.

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And one guy is
digging for water,

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an old man in the desert.

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He's digging a hole,
trying to find water.

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And his wife is sitting
down beside him,

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just sort of with a very
sour expression on her face,

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waiting for him to find water.

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And the person who made
it-- her name is [? Jeka ?]

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[? Frenkel-- ?] had written
around the water hole with

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pencil in rather shaky
letters "no water"

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to be sure you got the idea.

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But I-- although it's a
charming little vignette--

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like most things charming-- they
also have this serious side.

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So I took this little--

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these figures seriously.

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"We must show the man and
woman at a dry waterhole.

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He is digging with a stick
tied to his arm with black wool

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while she sits legs out beside
her empty cup, a lump of wood.

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Their bag of gifts and food
stuffs, a poor balloon,

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is dropped on the ground.

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Perhaps they're
traveling between one

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relative and another, between a
son and the next crop of corn,

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blue in the future.

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Are they sick?

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Are they old?

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At any rate, it is
out beyond the farms

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where the mountains
crawl along the edges

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of a brittle universe.

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And they, in the middle,
sweating in their dainty

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flowered grain sack clothes,
carved from saguaro ribs,

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leaner, sadder than normal.

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One's stooping, stirring,
drop-jawed over the hole

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through the cholla base where
there is sea sand at the bottom

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if one looks.

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The other-- awkward,
waiting in a shift

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of birds and red grapes,
cross-eyed, angry,

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wanting water."

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