This little painting was a study in preparation to another larger painting of the same subject.  Simocho is the name given to an unopened squash blossom flower.    The hairdo was the required coiffure for unmarried girls in the Hopi culture.  Each day, the girl's mother did up her hair is the tight whorls imitating a squash blossom, a symbol that figures prominently in several cultures in the Southwest United States.  Her mother wears the acceptable hairdo of a married woman.  (See "Squash Blossom)