Produced by Carlo Traverso, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net, from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France at http://gallica.bnf.fr. Transcriber's Note: "[t]" represents a raised (superscript) "t." * * * * * SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY * * * * * THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE ZUÑI CHILD. BY MRS. TILLY E. STEVENSON. * * * * * CONTENTS. Page. Brief account of Zuñi mythology................. 539 Birth customs................................... 545 Involuntary initiation into the Kōk-kō.......... 547 Voluntary initiation into the Kōk-kō............ 553 ILLUSTRATIONS. PLATE Page. XX. Zuñi masks and Kō-yē-mē-shi.............. 545 XXI. Group of Sä-lä-mō-bī-ya masks............ 548 XXII. Zuñi sand altar in Kiva of the North..... 550 XXIII. ōh-hē-i-que, Kiva of the East............ 552 THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE ZUÑI CHILD. * * * * * BY MRS. TILLY E. STEVENSON. * * * * * BRIEF ACCOUNT OF ZUÑI MYTHOLOGY. The Pueblo of Zuñi is situated in Western New Mexico on the Rio Zuñi, a tributary of the Little Colorado River. The Zuñi have resided in this region for several centuries. The peculiar geologic and geographic character of the country surrounding them, as well as its aridity, furnishes ample sources from which a barbarous people would derive legendary and mythologic history. A brief reference to these features is necessary to understand more fully the religious phases of Zuñi child life.