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INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS
VOL. VIII
A SERIES OF PUBLICATIONS RELATING TO THE

AMERICAN ABORIGINES
ZUÑI BREADSTUFF

BY
FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING

NEW YORK
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
HEYE FOUNDATION
1920

THIS series of INDIAN NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS is devoted primarily to the publication of the results of studies by members of the staff of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, and is uniform with HISPANIC NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS, published by the Hispanic Society of America, with which organization this Museum is in cordial coöperation.

 

 

FOREWORD

 

CHAPTER I, CREATION, AND THE ORIGIN OF CORN

 

CHAPTER II, THE ORIGIN OF THE DRAGONFLY AND OF THE CORN PRIESTS, OR GUARDIANS OF THE SEED

 

CHAPTER III, LAND LAW AND LABOR

 

CHAPTER IV, CORN-RAISING, OR "THE DECAY OF THE SEED"

 

CHAPTER V, CORN-RAISING, OR "THE REGENERATION OF THE SEED"

 

CHAPTER VI, I'-NO-TE-KWE A-WEN I'-Tâ-WE, OR THE "FOOD OF THE ANCIENTS"

 

CHAPTER VII, NA'-NA-KWE A-WEN I'-Tâ-WE, OR THE "FOOD OF THE GRANDFATHERS"

 

CHAPTER VIII, "THE YOUNG MEN WHO WERE FOND OF PARCHED CORN AND SWEET GRUEL, OR THE FOUR AWKWARD SUITORS"

 

CHAPTER IX, Tâ-A I'-Tâ-WE, OR THE "FOOD OF THE SEED OF SEEDS"

 

CHAPTER X, HE'-WE I'Tâ-WE, or THE WAFER FOODS

 

CHAPTER XI, KHIA' I'-TA-WE, OR WHEAT FOOD. THE INTRODUCTION, CULTIVATION, AND USE OF WHEAT AMONG THE ZUÑIS

 

CHAPTER XII, HU'-MU-A K'IA-NA-KWE, OR "THE CROONER BANDS"

 

CHAPTER XIII, THE STORY OF THE YOUNG HUNTER

 

CHAPTER XIV, HOW HE LEARNED TO HUNT

 

CHAPTER XV, HOW HE WAS DIVORCED

 

CHAPTER XVI, HOW HE TWICE RETURNED

 

CHAPTER XVII, ABOUT SOME INDIAN MEALS

 

CHAPTER XVIII, MORE INDIAN MEALS

 

CHAPTER XIX, CORN DANCES AND FESTIVALS