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In their corne fields they builde as yt weare a scaffolde wher on they sett 
a cottage like to a rownde chaire, signified by F. wherein they place one to 
watche, for there are suche nomber of fowles, and beasts, that vnless they 
keepe the better watche, they would soone deuoure all their corne. For 
which cause the Sere maketh continual crys and noise. They sowe 
their corne with a certaine distance noted by H. other wise one stalke would 
choke ne Me of another and the corne would not come vnto his 
sea G. For oa leaves thereof are large, like vnto the leaues of great 
ree . Likewise they haue garden notted bey the letter 7, wherein they 
vse to sowe pompions [pumpkins]. 
Fic. 11. Zufiis grinding corn on the stone metates. Note the grass brush 
in the basket at the left, used to brush the meal from the grinding stones. 
Cf. Fig. 12.) Photo by Donald A. Cadzow. 
Women’s Rights 
As we have hinted, the corn, once gathered, becomes the prop- 
erty of the woman of the Pueblo family. Her husband may have 
done the planting and the tilling, he may have deposited many 
prayer-sticks, offered numerous prayers, participated in many 
dances, including a ceremony of thanksgiving for an abundant 
crop; but here his duty and his direct interest end. He has no 
more property-right in the corn stored in the home than he has 
