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The Zuni (Zuni: A:shiwi; formerly spelled Zuñi) are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley. The Zuni people today are federally recognized as the Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, and most live in the Pueblo of Zuni on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico, United ...
Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people. Within the Zuni community, these carvings serve ceremonial purposes for their creators and depict animals and icons integral to their culture.
Zuni religion is the oral history, cosmology, and religion of the Zuni people. The Zuni are a Pueblo people located in New Mexico. Their religion is integrated into their daily lives and respects ancestors, nature, and animals. [1] Because of a history of religious persecution by non-native peoples, they are very private about their religious ...
Suskityrannus (meaning "coyote tyrant", suski meaning "coyote" in Zuni) is a genus of small tyrannosauroid theropod from the Late Cretaceous in southern Laramidia.It contains a single species, Suskityrannus hazelae, and the type specimen was found in the Turonian-age Moreno Hill Formation of the Zuni Basin in western New Mexico.
The mudheads (called Koyemshi in Zuni, and Tatsuki in Hopi) are usually portrayed by pinkish clay coated bodies and matching cotton bag worn over the head. [ 5 ] Anthropologists, most notably Adolf Bandelier in his 1890 book, The Delight Makers , and Elsie Clews Parsons in her Pueblo Indian Religion , have extensively studied the meaning of the ...
Like all mythologies, there are many different versions of the Zuni creation story. In one version, the creature Poshaiyankya escapes from the four-fold womb of Awitelin Tsita and convinces the Sun father, Awonawilona, to send the Ahayuta , the twin gods of war, to bring the rest of womb dwellers into the light. [ 2 ]
Arachnis zuni, the zuni tiger-moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Berthold Neumoegen in 1890. It was described by Berthold Neumoegen in 1890. It is found in North America from New Mexico to Arizona and Mexico .
Zuni, Virginia, an unincorporated town in Virginia in the United States; Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, a census-designated place in New Mexico, United States; Zuni Salt Lake, in New Mexico, United States