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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 ...
The Zuni Indian Reservation, also known as Pueblo of Zuni, is the homeland of the Zuni tribe of Native Americans. In Zuni language , the Zuni Pueblo people are referred to as A:shiwi , and the Zuni homeland is referred to as Halona Idiwan’a meaning Middle Place.
Hawikuh is located within the boundaries of the Zuni Indian Reservation near Zuni, New Mexico. [7] The ruins of Hawikuh were excavated during 1917-23 by the Heye Foundation under the leadership of Frederick Webb Hodge , who was assistant director of the Museum of the American Indian, New York .
During the Pueblo IV period, Four Corners pueblo settlements were abandoned (northern and central portion of the Ancestral Pueblo region.) Drawings of kachina dolls, from an 1894 anthropology book. The Pueblo IV Period (AD 1350 to AD 1600) was the fourth period of ancient pueblo life in the American Southwest .
In the Pueblo cultures, kachina rites are practiced by the Hopi, Hopi-Tewa and Zuni peoples and certain Keresan tribes, as well as in most Pueblo tribes in New Mexico. The kachina concept has three different aspects: the supernatural being, the kachina dancers, and kachina dolls (small dolls carved in the likeness of the kachina, that are given ...
The Zuni-Cibola Complex is a collection of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites on the Zuni Pueblo in western New Mexico. It comprises Hawikuh, Yellow House, Kechipbowa, and Great Kivas, all sites of long residence and important in the early Spanish colonial contact period. It was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1974. [2]
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 ...
Cushing at Zuni, c. 1881-82., by John K. Hillers. Cushing was invited by Powell to join the James Stevenson anthropological expedition to New Mexico. The group traveled by rail to the end of the line at Las Vegas, New Mexico, then on to Zuni Pueblo. Fascinated by this culture, Cushing gained permission to stay at the pueblo.