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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers : the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Franciscan missions; personal accounts of the ceremonies, games, social life and industries of its Indians; a description of its climate, geology, flora and birds, its rivers and forests; a review of its rapid development, land-reclamation projects and educational system; with full and accurate account of its progressive counties, cities and towns
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: New Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : The Page company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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laimed: We-ma-he,clearly showing that they were astounded at my posses-sion of the creature, and surprised that no harm hadcome to me. Possibly I never might have learned thesignificance of the we-ma-he had I not later read Lieut. 1 This chapter is far too profound a discussion and presentation ofthis subject to have been written by this, or any other, author, whohad not actually lived with the Zunis for many years and becomeintimately acquainted with their inmost life. There are but twomen who could have written it. One was Lieut. Frank HamiltonCushing, the other his worthy successor in this field, Dr. Jesse Wal-ter Fewkes. It was written (and buried to all but scientists in theGovernment publications) by Lieut. Cushing, and in accordance witha pledge made to him some short time before he died I am now pre-senting it in this book designed for popular reading, that a far widercircle may become familiar with his wonderfully illuminative workamong these interesting aboriginal people. 98
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PUEBLO INDIAN, WITH THROWING STICK,RABBIT HUNT. KF.ADY FOR A Hunting with Indians in New Mexico 99 Cushings lucid monograph on the subject, published inthe Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.In this he explains the religion or philosophy of the Zuniand how his mind works in regard to the objects of Na-ture. As I have endeavoured to show, in the chapteron the Religion of the Indians, he looks up to, worships,Nature and all animals, birds, fishes, reptiles. Naturallythe white man asks why? He cannot see any reasonfor this. All this is fully explained in the myths of the Zuni —called by Cushing the Zuni Iliad. Here is the storyas translated by him: In the days when all was new, men lived in the four caverns of thelower regions. In the lower-most one of these men first came toknow of their existence. It was dark, and as men increased theybegan to crowd one another and were very unhappy. Wise mencame into existence among them, whose children supplicated themthat they should

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