BAE Report – 23: THE ZUNI INDIANS [SOLD]

THE ZUNI INDIANS: THEIR MYTHOLOGY, ESOTERIC SOCIETIES, AND CEREMONIES by Matilda Coxe Stevenson

Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

To the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1901-1902

Government Printing Office, Washington, 1904

Hard Cover, green cloth with gold image, 634 pages, 139 color and black and white illustrations, 34 figures, very good condition

Abbreviated from the Table of Contents

Introduction

Mythology

Anthropic Worship and Ritual

Calendar and Calendric Ceremonials

A’shiwanni (Rain Priesthood)

‘Hia’hewe Ceremonial for Rain and Growth of Corn

O’winahai’ye, thanksgiving festival for crops

Qudrennial Dance of the Kia’nak we

Annual Festival of the Sha’lako

History, Arts, and Customs

Physical Characters

Medical Practice

Witchcraft

Esoteric Fraternities

Arts and Industries chapter covers the following subjects:  house building, agriculture and horticulture, salt gathering, food and drink, dress and adornment, weaving, basketry, pottery, silversmithing, breadmaking, wagonmaking, auctioneering, and recent changes in arts and industries.