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implements of iron, shaping the silver ornaments so skilfully wrought 

 by the workmen of his tribe. Two women are engaged in the most 

 notable industry of this people, the spinning of yarn from native wool 

 and the weaving- of blankets. 



TheZuni Indians, represented in the eighth family group (Plate 30), 

 live in pueblos on the table lands of western New Mexico and stand 

 for the sedentary town-building type of the Pueblo region. They 

 were visited at the beginning of the 16th century by the earliest Span- 

 ish explorers, and have been a subject of study by ethnologists for 

 many years. They dress in woolen clothing, are agriculturists as 

 well as herdsmen, and make excellent belts, blankets, and pottery. 

 At the same time they are devoted to their ancient religion. 



This group includes in the foreground a young woman engaged in 

 weaving one of the artistic belts used for the waist. At the right is 

 seated an old man occupied in drilling a bit of stone with the ordinary 

 pump drill. His dress is that worn during the Spanish period. Near 

 the middle of the group stands a young girl in the usual costume, who 

 has just returned from the spring, bearing upon her head a water ves- 

 sel. On the right are two children interested in their frugal meal. 



The Cocopa Indian family, shown in group 9 (Plate 31), represents the 

 Sonoran ethnic province. They occupy the lower valley of the Colo- 

 rado River, Mexico, from the international boundary to the head of the 

 Gulf of California. Although they were visited by Spaniards in 1540, 

 and have been in contact with the ( laucasian race for two hundred years, 

 they retained their primitive traits up to about 1890. They subsist 

 largely by means of agriculture, feeding partly on game and fish, with 

 various seeds, roots, and fruits. They dwell in scattered settlements, 

 usually of one to half a dozen houses, which pertain to a family or 

 (dan. Little costume is used, the men until recently habitually wear- 

 ing skins and the women petticoats of the inner bark of willow, as 

 seen in the illustration. Their faces are habitually painted, and they 

 are tattooed moderately. 



The group includes live figures. A young man with bow and arrow 

 is engaged in teaching a boy to shoot; the woman is pounding corn in 

 a wooden mortar, and the young girl carries the babe and concerns 

 herself with the bow practice of the boy. 



The tenth family group (Plate 32) shows the Maya-Quiche of Guate- 

 mala. These people occupy also parts of Chiapas and a small area in 

 western Honduras; at one time they were the most highly cultured of all 

 the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere. They had an artificial 

 basis of food supply, dressed in delicate fabrics, and were capable of 

 erecting vast terraces and stepped pyramids surmounted with buildings 

 adorned with sculptures and paintings. They wore of moderate stat- 

 ure, not warlike, but industrial, and the sculptures and paintings reveal- 

 ing their religion are remarkably free from bloody scenes. They 



