THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 



and some of the houses in Zuni are made; also fetiches 

 and charms and a collection of masks worn in dances. 

 These ceremonies are designed to secure rain, produce 

 crops or achieve healing. In them the priests of the various 

 secret societies personate the gods, each god requiring a 

 differently made or painted mask and costume. The masks 

 are of five general types but exhibit great variety. Similar 

 masks are found among the Hopi, Keres, Tewa and other 

 pueblo tribes of the Southwest, in representation of the 

 same gods. The same mask may be used in different 

 dances, being painted, however, according to the require- 

 ments of each. Firearms have superseded the primitive 

 bow and arrow, club and shield of the Indians, which are 

 now used only in ceremonial dances. 



At this end of the hall is a model of Montezuma's Well 

 near Cape Verde, Arizona, a circular depression with natu- 

 rally perpendicular walls, in which are several cliff dwell- 

 ings. It is one of the most interesting sites of Indian habi- 

 tation in the Verde Valley, and is claimed by the Hopi as 

 the home of their ancestors. 



The representations of Zuni altars, shown among the 

 masks in two of the cases, and the labels referring to them 

 and to Zuni secret societies, should be studied in connection 

 with the color sketches of shrines on the south wall and 

 with the bells obtained from shrines shown in cases farther 

 down the hall. 



The Zuni have thirteen secret societies, to one or the 

 other of which the greater part of the population belongs. 



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