With the first frost, the Zuni, Navajo and Mescalero Apache Indians of New Mexico go out to harvest the little piñion nuts which grow on stubby pines atop the two great mesas, Cerro Alto and Santa Rita, close to the Continental Divide. For the past three years the crop has been scant, but such a yield was promised this year that the Navajos quit hammering silver and weaving blankets in anticipation of selling tons of piñion nuts at 5¢ to 10¢ per lb. Last month 1,000 Navajos and 300 Zunis went a-nutting in small canvas-covered wagons. When the...
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