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Edward S. Curtis: A Corner of Zuni
A Corner of Zuni, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1903.
Zuni
people
Also known as: Zuñi
- Also spelled:
- Zuñi
- Related Topics:
- Southwest Indian
- Pueblo Indians
Zuni, North American Indian tribe of what is now west-central New Mexico, on the Arizona border. The Zuni are a Pueblo Indian group and speak a Penutian language. They are believed to be descendants of the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi). Zuni traditions depict a past in which their ancestors emerged from underground and eventually settled at the tribe’s present location. When Pueblo tribes first encountered Spanish colonizers in the 16th century, the Zuni were living in Hawikuh and five or six other towns. Collectively these towns came to be called the Seven Cities of Cibola, host to a rumoured empire ...(100 of 250 words)