Identifier: annualreportofbu23smit (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation and Omidyar Network

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e fields each day by the family for whom they work.The clans of the heads of the house also aid in the entertainment. These primitive agriculturists have observed the greatest care indeveloping color in corn and beans to harmonize with the six regions—yellow for the North, blue for the West, red for the South, white forthe East, variegated for the Zenith, and black for the Nadir. They n Although the Zunis are perfectly aware that stone doorways were in early use among their people,the only perfect speoimen to be seen in this village belongs to an aged theurglst who mourns the factthat his people have not preserved these objects of their ancient architecture. In the Eighth AnnualReport of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1891, in a paper entitled A Study of Pueblo Architecture, byMr Victor Mindeleff, is a most interesting pen picture, on p. 192, containing a reference to stonedoorways discovered in ruins. ^See Kiwisiwe and their functions, p. 62. i^See Annual festival ot the Shalako. p. 227.
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STEVENSON) ARTS AND INDUSTRIES 351 have all shades of yellow and blue, and of red from the deepest cardinalto the most delicate pink. The white corn is intensely white, and thereare remarkable varieties of variegated corn. There are several shadesof purple corn, and black corn. The same variety of shades is to befound in the beans, which are grown in the cornfield. Much of thecorn and all of the wheat is raised in the farming districts of Nutria,Pescado, and Ojo Caliente. The cornlields also spread over the landnear Zufii and elsewhere. In most instances the Helds remote fromthe farming districts are not irrigated. The corn is grown in clustersso as to give a better chance for developuient in this arid land. Thethree farming districts are each irrigated from a spring. The descrip-tion of one will answer for all. The spring Toseluna, at Ojo Caliente,is at the base of a low limestone mountain. The body of the spring,which is deep, is between 35 and 40 feet long, 18 by 20 feet wide, -and

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