. St. Nicholas [serial]. iece 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 lea
. St. Nicholas [serial]. iece 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 wait, playing aboutin the sand, while their mothers go down to thespring. There the women fill the jars, then,poising them on their heads, climb the hill andmount the ladders to their homes. As all thewater used by the village has to be brought to itin these ollas (water-jars), carried on the womens. ON THE WAY TO FORT WINGATE. ing words. They also speak a little Spanish, asdoes nearly everybody in New Mexico. The little Zuhis amuse themselves with run-ning, wrestling, jumping, and playing at grownfolks, just as civilized children do. They havetheir bows and arrows,their rag-dolls,—strappedlike real babies to cradles,—and their shinnysticks and balls. The children also make them-selves useful at home. The older girls take careof their younger brothers and sisters, and theboys tend the goats. There are large herds ofgoats belonging to the village, and they must betaken every morning to graze on the plain, andbrought home at night to be shut up in thecorrals, or folds, safe from prowling wolves. The little children often go with their mothersto draw water from the village well, about a heads, it is not surprising that the boys clothesare grimy and the girls have apparently neverknown what it is to wash their faces. The ollas, which answer the purpose of
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