. Bulletin. Ethnology. 1016 ZUNI [b. a. e. family, residing in a single permanent pueblo known by the same name, on the N. bank of upper Zufii r., Valencia co., N. Mex. (for illustration see Pueblos), and, in siunmer, the three neighboring farming villages of Pescado, Nutria, and Ojo Caliente. Their tribal name is A^shiwi (sing. Shi^ui), 'the flesh.' The name of their tribal range is Shi'wona, or Shi^winakwin, which Gushing renders 'the land that produces flesh.' Their common name, Zufii, is a Spanish adap- tation of the Keresan Simyitsi, or Sn^nyitsa, of unknown meaning. It has no con- nectio
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 1016 ZUNI [b. a. e. family, residing in a single permanent pueblo known by the same name, on the N. bank of upper Zufii r., Valencia co., N. Mex. (for illustration see Pueblos), and, in siunmer, the three neighboring farming villages of Pescado, Nutria, and Ojo Caliente. Their tribal name is A^shiwi (sing. Shi^ui), 'the flesh.' The name of their tribal range is Shi'wona, or Shi^winakwin, which Gushing renders 'the land that produces flesh.' Their common name, Zufii, is a Spanish adap- tation of the Keresan Simyitsi, or Sn^nyitsa, of unknown meaning. It has no con- nection with "i:)eopleof long finger-nails," as has been erroneously said. According to Gushing, the Zuni are de- scended from two parental stocks, one of a companion of Alvar Nmlez Cabeza de Vaca on his famous journey from the Gulf of Mexico across Texas and into Mexico), to explore the unknown region to the N. w. Sending the negro and some Indian guides ahead to prepare the tribes for his coming and to report on the pros- pects of the country, the friar pursued his way through Sonora and into the present Arizona, where he received word from some of the Indians who had accom- panied Estevanico that the negro and some of their own peoi)le had been killed by the natives of Gibola. After placat- ing his Indian followers, who threatened his life. Fray Marcos again pressed on, viewing the first of the Gibola villages from an adjacent height. He then startetl. ACROSS THE HOUSE-TOPS OF ZUNI—TAAIYALONE IN THE DISTANCE which came originally from the n., the other from the w. or s. w., fi'om the coun- try of the lower Rio Golorado. The lat- ter, who resembled the Yuman and Piman tribes in mode of life, joined the others after their settlement in the Zufii valley. To this nucleus there were man y accretions from other tribes and stocks, as well as many desertions from it, in both prehis- toric and historic times. Although indefinite knowledge of an Indian province containing seven
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