Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths: Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448Cushing, Frank Hamilton
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Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths: Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448
Cushing, Frank Hamilton
Zuni mythology
The diverse meaning of terms in Zuñi architecture is no less
significant of the diverse conditions and opposite directions of
derivation of the Zuñi ancestry. If the aboriginal branch of the Zuñi
were derived from the dwellers in the northern cliff towns, as has
been assumed, then we would expect to find surviving in the names of
such structural features of their pueblos as resulted from life in the
cliffs linguistic evidence, as in the structures themselves material
evidence, of the fact. Of this, as will presently be shown, there is an
abundance.
If the intrusive branch of the Zuñi ancestry were, as has also been
assumed, of extreme southwestern origin, then we should expect to find
linguistic evidence of a similar nature, say, as to the structural
modifications of the cliff-dweller and round-town architecture which
their arrival at and ultimate position in these towns might lead us to
expect to find, and which in fact is to be abundantly traced in later
Zuñi ruins, like those of the historic Seven Cities of Cibola.
The conditions of life and peculiarities of building, etc., in the
caves and cliffs, then in the round towns, have been commented on at
some length in previous pages, and sufficiently described to render
intelligible a presentation of this linguistic and additional evidence
in regard to derivation from that direction; but it remains for me
to sketch, as well as I can in brief, the more significant of such
characteristics of the primitive Yuman house and village life as seem
to bear on the additional linguistic and other evidence of derivation
also from the opposite or Rio Colorado direction, for both clews should
be presented side by side, if only for the sake of contrast.
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