tached to one another and to their
children." "The keynote of this harmony is the supremacy of the wife
in the home. The house with all that is in it is hers, descending to
her through her mother from a long line of ancestresses; and the
husband is merely her permanent guest. The children--at least the
female children--have their share in the common home; the father has
none." "Outside the house the husband has some property in the fields,
although in earlier times he had no possessory rights and the land was
held in common. Modern influences have reached the Zuni, and
mother-right seems to have begun its inevitable decay."[63]

[62] Cushing, "My Visit to the Zuni Indians," _Century
Magazine_, 1883. Prof. Tylor gives these passages in his
account of the Zuni Indians, "The Patriarchal Family System,"
_Nineteenth Century_, 1896. I have quoted from him.

[63] Mrs. Stevenson, in the _Report Bureau Ethnological_,
XXIII, pp. 290-293.

The Hopis, another Pueblo tribe, are more conservative, and with them
the women own all the property except the horses and donkeys, which
belong to the men. Among the Pueblos the women commonly have control
over the granary, and they are very provident about the future.
Ordinarily they try to have one year's provisions on hand. It is only
when two years of scarcity succeed each other that the community
suffers hunger. Like the Zunis, the Hopis are monogamists. Sexual
freedom is, however, permitted to a girl before marriage. This in no
way detracts from her good repute; even if she has given birth to a
child "she will be sure to marry later on, unless she happens to be
shockingly ugly." Nor does the child suffer, for among these maternal
peoples, the bastard takes an equal place with the child born in
wedlock. The bride lives for the first few weeks with her husband's
family, during which time the marriage takes place, the ceremony being
performed by the bridegroom's mother, whose family also provides the
bride with her wedding outfit. The couple then return to the home of
the wife's parents, where they remain, either permanently, or for some
years, until they can obtain a separate dwelling. The husband is
always a stranger, and is so treated by his wife's kin. The dwelling
of his mother remains his true home, in sickness he returns to her to
be nursed, and stays with her until he is well again. Often his
position in his wife's home is so irksome that he severs his
con