Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ? vn ???: i^^ t. X Hi- ^-. 3 oq:ouiirO UJ I UJ > 3 O COUJ I CO UJ 3Q. 3N ETHNOBOTANY OF THE ZUNI INDIANS By Matilda Coxe Stevenson INTRODUCTION THERE is perhaps no tril^o of North American Indians whichhas interested the intelligent world more than the Zuni, wholive in an arid country in the extreme western part of NewMexico. Then-great community pueblo (pis. 1, 3) occupies the siteof one of the seven villages inhabited by the tribe at the time of theinvasion of the Spanish conquerors, before
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ? vn ???: i^^ t. X Hi- ^-. 3 oq:ouiirO UJ I UJ > 3 O COUJ I CO UJ 3Q. 3N ETHNOBOTANY OF THE ZUNI INDIANS By Matilda Coxe Stevenson INTRODUCTION THERE is perhaps no tril^o of North American Indians whichhas interested the intelligent world more than the Zuni, wholive in an arid country in the extreme western part of NewMexico. Then-great community pueblo (pis. 1, 3) occupies the siteof one of the seven villages inhabited by the tribe at the time of theinvasion of the Spanish conquerors, before the middle of the sixteenthcentury. Although the Zuni form a distinct linguistic stock, according toPowells classification, it is known from a study of their prayers andrituals that they are a composite people, some havmg come fromthe north, while othere came from the south. According to theirtraditions they journeyed from the far northwest in quest of the middle place of the world, and on reaching theu- goal were contentedto remain. The migration legend of the Zuni relates that they weredriven from their homes at this
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