Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . al wagon in Zuni is owned by Mr Graham, theagent. The Indian wagon is of home manufacture, although of Spanishorigin (see plate xcvii). The wheels are heavy blocks, carved in therudest fashion; the bed is composed of beams or poles and the sidesof slender poles. The structure is lined, when necessary, with is drawn by oxen, and the whole is of the most primitive AUCTIONEERING Auctioneering with the Zunis is quite as much of a feature as it iswith civilized people, and the auctionee


Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .. . al wagon in Zuni is owned by Mr Graham, theagent. The Indian wagon is of home manufacture, although of Spanishorigin (see plate xcvii). The wheels are heavy blocks, carved in therudest fashion; the bed is composed of beams or poles and the sidesof slender poles. The structure is lined, when necessary, with is drawn by oxen, and the whole is of the most primitive AUCTIONEERING Auctioneering with the Zunis is quite as much of a feature as it iswith civilized people, and the auctioneer is a conspicuous the larder becomes overstocked with some varieties of food andis deficient in others, the head of the household looks anxiously for » A fine specimen (if a cylindrical turquoise bead three-fourths inch in length, found at a ruin nearthe Zuni salt lake, was secured for the National Museum. b Mr Stevenson secured one of these wagons from a Rio Grande pueblo for the National Museumat Washington UREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT PL. XCVI. a. BEAD MAKING


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