This limited selection was perhaps augmented by pinon nuts, yucca fruit, and other indigenous products found in abundance.
Nevertheless, in the Cliff Palace cave, well below the horizon or floor level of the cliff dwellers, archeologists have found a yucca fiber sandal of a distinctive type which is associated only with the first agricultural civilization.
It provided such a contrast to O'Connor's furnishings that Malone began to wish it was Sir Lewis who was employed at Yucca Flats.
In spite of the heat of Yucca Flats, he would have to talk to the man personally.
Then the office in Yucca Flats was gone, and Malone was standing in the bedroom of his own apartment, on the fringes of Washington, D.
As long as the FBI catered to that notion-- which included a Royal dwelling for her in Yucca Flats, and the privilege of occasionally knighting FBI agents who had pleased her unpredictable fancy--she was perfectly rational on all other points.
She was very glad of the chance to return to Yucca Flats, she said.
He flipped on the visiphone and dialed Yucca Flats.
By law, after all, he knew he should check in and out at the main gate of the huge, ultra-top-secret Government reservation whenever he visited Yucca Flats.
But you got to Yucca Flats for your knighting awfully quickly, a little too fast even for a modern plane.
The soles of their moccasins were made of hay and the uppers of yucca fibers.
When the last transformation was completed the dancers went once more around the fire and departed, leaving the fruitful yucca behind them.
It was after 1 o’clock in the morning when the dance of the hoshkàwn (Yucca baccata) began.
In the second act the rattler brought in under his arm a basket containing yucca leaves, and a prayer was said to the sun.
From the black vessel she took nuts of the piñon and fruit of the yucca and from the white vessel she took cherries and cactus fruit, all of which he received in the folded corner of his elk robe.
The sticks were then painted, a shred of yucca leaf being used for the brush, with rings of black, red, and white, disposed in a different order on each stick.
Slowly advancing as he enacted his part, he in time reached the place where the yucca stood, and, in his imbecile totterings, he at length stumbled on the plant and pretended to have his flesh lacerated by the sharp leaves.
It will suffice to say here that when the yucca fruit was picked and put in the basket the old man helped the “woman” to shoulder her load and the pair left the corral.
The previous transformations of the yucca had been greeted with approving shouts and laughter; the blossoms were hailed with storms of applause.
After a minute spent in singing and many repetitions of “Thòhay,” the circle opened, disclosing to our view the yucca root planted in the sand.
A few days later on his way home from a short trip to his claims, he found a half-starved cat tied to a lonely yucca far up on the mountain trail, where it had been abandoned by its inhuman owners and left to this terrible fate.
It was cruel to tie her to the yucca and leave her to starve to death, but I 'most wish she'd been dead when Dad found her.
As Majesty climbed steadily Madeline saw the gray darkness grow opaque, change and lighten, lose its substance, and yield the grotesque shapes of yucca and ocotillo.
It was a southerly slope, and therefore semi-arid, covered with cercocarpus and yucca and some shrub that Madeline believed was manzanita.
Then, just as we were about to start, a young boy was brought in, half Lecco and half Cholo, the son of a man who had been murdered while working in his little yucca patch up across the Uyappi River.
Presently as we swung around a bend there appeared a tiny cane-walled hut surrounded by a few platano andyucca trees.
The yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age, tipped with panicles of fetid, greenish bloom.
So it is that in those parts where man inhabits one sees young plants of Yucca arborensis infrequently.
Before the yuccahas come to flower, while yet its bloom is a creamy cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap, the Indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast it for their own delectation.
Also Zeke wears on his feet sandals of yucca fiber and matting.
It is thought these people used not only yucca fiber for weaving, but some species of hemp and cotton; for there are tatters and strips of what might have been cotton or linen.
An incense as of morning worship filled the air with the odor of cedars and cloves and wild nutmeg pinks and yucca bloom.
Lies a little body, that of a girl of about eighteen or twenty, swathed in otter and beaver skins with leg bindings of woven yucca fiber something like modern burlap.
She was still at Yucca Flats, along with the other telepaths Malone's investigation had turned up.
It's just--" He thought of the little old lady in Yucca Flats, the little old lady who had been the prime mover in the last case he and Boyd had worked on together.
Illustration: Pod ofyucca showing where the young pronubas escaped.
Closer, inch by inch, making the most of every bunch of yucca and cholla, the officer slowly crept.
Now he passed a blooming azalea or a yucca with clustering bellflowers.
Nature has, however, fitted the yucca for the ungenial soil it is destined to occupy.
That won't take but a few minutes and when old Fanny Squaw comes along in a week or so to sell ollas I'll send her down to cut and weave yucca for you.
String some wire about six inches apart around your four poles and weave yuccastalks in and out.
When Dick came down with the triweekly barrel of water he was astonished to see Qui-tha slowly weaving yucca stalks into the wire that now bound the poles of the cook tent.
Gustav had achieved his chef-d'oeuvre in a huge "welcome" made of yuccastalks outlined over the living tent door.
There were half a dozen Indian sun shelters near the spring, each a mere cat's claw and yucca thatch, supported on cedar posts.
Late that same afternoon the three boy travelers found themselves riding amidst a perfect forest of stiff–armed yucca plants.
He was supposed to have been driven to the solitudes of the yucca desert by some unfortunate love affair, but of this he never talked, and all concerning his former life was merely rumor.
It was a rolling country, grown with bunch grass and here and there a ghostly–looking yucca stretching its gaunt arms out against the sky.
However, he did not appear half so formidable as he looked, and the boys concluded that the old hermit of the yucca waste would be an interesting character to study.
He tried cutting the yucca stalks and extracting some moisture from them.
Root of the yucca plant is beaten into a pulp and used as a shampoo cream by other tribes.
An ashen-colored lizard darts across the trail, a sage rabbit darts behind a yucca bush, and far overhead a tireless buzzard floats in circles.
Gradually rising, we reached the desert, where only cactus, sagebrush, and yucca grew.
He was still mulling things over when the ship lowered its landing gear and rolled to a stop on the big field near Yucca Flats.
Your Majesty," he began carefully, "we've got to go to Yucca Flats tomorrow.
But he hadn't expected the man to show up at Yucca Flats.
In the distance, Malone could see the blot on the desert that indicated the broad expanse of Yucca Flats Labs.
But Sir Thomas kept his eyes grimly on the road as he gunned the powerful Lincoln toward the Yucca Flats Labs at eighty miles an hour.
By the time he could work up something else, we were on our way to Yucca Flats.
The other projects based at Yucca Flats had to share what space was left--and that included, of course, the Westinghouse research project.
And not the brains of the people working on the several other Earth-limited projects at Yucca Flats.
They're bringing him to Yucca Flats to meet the rest of us; isn't that nice?
And the whole group involved in the machine and its workings had been transferred without delay to the United States Laboratories out in Yucca Flats, Nevada.
O'Connor said, "that we were conducting this series with a new set of test subjects: some of the scientists here at Yucca Flats.
A full fortnight had been spent on digging up imbeciles, while the spy at Yucca Flats had been going right on his merry way, scooping information out of the men at Project Isle as though he were scooping beans out of a pot.
But I'm sending him on out to Yucca Flats anyhow, under guard.
In other words, the Yucca Flats plant was infested with a telepathic spy.
The root-stalks of Yucca are used as a substitute for soap, and ropes, baskets, and mats are made from the tough fibres of the leaves.
When she heard the voice of Pike she sat up, and then started quietly to pick up dry yucca stalks and bits of brushwood for a fire.
These are all of the same kind, and are made of yuccaleaves plaited in narrow strips.
It is customary in ceremonials now practiced, to wind a wisp of yucca about the stem of a short pipe, that it may not become too hot to hold in the hand.
The Yucca baccata affords the favorite fiber used by the natives at the present time, and it appears to have been popular for that purpose among the ancients.
There were likewise many wisps of yucca fiber tied in knots which must probably be regarded as of identical origin.
Riley discovered the remarkable fact that the Yucca moth (Pronuba yuccasella) lays its eggs in the ovary of Yucca flowers, which it has previously pollinated, thus making sure of a supply of ovules for the larvae.
