. St. Nicholas [serial]. old, hehas grown into a plump little bronze creature,with the straightest of coarse black hair and thebiggest and roundest of black eyes. He is nowout of the cradle, and trots about the houseand the village. When the weather is bad hewears a small coarse shirt, and always a neck-lace of beads or turquoise. As he grows older, he adds a pair of loose cot-ton trousers to his costume, and, if anything moreis needed to keep him warm, he girds on hisblanket, just as his forefathers havedone in all thethree hundred years since white men first knewthe Zunis. His long hair, eit
. St. Nicholas [serial]. old, hehas grown into a plump little bronze creature,with the straightest of coarse black hair and thebiggest and roundest of black eyes. He is nowout of the cradle, and trots about the houseand the village. When the weather is bad hewears a small coarse shirt, and always a neck-lace of beads or turquoise. As he grows older, he adds a pair of loose cot-ton trousers to his costume, and, if anything moreis needed to keep him warm, he girds on hisblanket, just as his forefathers havedone in all thethree hundred years since white men first knewthe Zunis. His long hair, either flying loosely in the wind or tied back with a band of somered stuff, serves him both as hair and as hat. His little sister, however, has a more elabo-rate dress. Her mama weaves it for her, asshe does her own, in a rude loom. She makestwo square blankets of black cotton, finishesthem neatly across top and bottom, sews themtogether at the sides with red yarn, and thedress is ready to try on. It always fits perfectly,. t-fee - ?.«. A ZUNI WATER-CARRIEK. as the part which forms the skirt is simply heldin place by a sash, and the waist is made bydrawing two corners of the blankets up overthe left shoulder. The sash, woven in gaycolors, is also the work of Mama Zuni. Along, narrow piece of cotton cloth is drapedfrom the other shoulder, and swings easilyabout, serving as pocket, shawl, or cold weather, moccasins, leggings, and blan-kets are also worn. These articles, too, aremade at home. While the mother is the dress- IOI2 THE CHILDREN OF ZUNI. [Sept. maker and tailor, the father is the family shoe-maker. A few of the Zufii girls have dresseslike those of American girls. These clotheshave come to them through the mission-schoolwhich adjoins the village. The Zuhis have a language of their own —no very easy one for boys and girls to learn,judging from its many-syllabled, harsh-sound- hundred yards from the houses. At the top ofa flight of stone steps they wa
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