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Title: The Religious Life of the Zuni Child
Bureau of American Ethnology

Author: (Mrs.) Tilly E. (Matilda Coxe Evans) Stevenson

Release Date: October 24, 2005 [EBook #16932]
[Date last updated: December 17, 2005]

Language: English

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY

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THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE ZUNI CHILD.

BY

MRS. TILLY E. STEVENSON.

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CONTENTS.

Page.

Brief account of Zuni mythology................... 539

Birth customs..................................... 545

Involuntary initiation into the K[=o]k-k[=o]...... 547

Voluntary initiation into the K[=o]k-k[=o]........ 553

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PLATE Page.

XX. Zuni masks and K[=o]-y[=e]-m[=e]-shi....... 545

XXI. Group of Sae-lae-m[=o]-b[=i]-ya masks........ 548

XXII. Zuni sand altar in Kiva of the North....... 550

XXIII. [=O]h-h[=e]-i-que, Kiva of the East........ 552

Page.

THE RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE ZUNI CHILD.

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BY MRS. TILLY E. STEVENSON.

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BRIEF ACCOUNT OF ZUNI MYTHOLOGY.

The Pueblo of Zuni is situated in Western New Mexico on the Rio Zuni,
a tributary of the Little Colorado River. The Zuni have resided
in this region for several centuries. The peculiar geologic and
geographic ch