THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 



The chief object of these societies is to heal the sick and 

 produce rain. They meet in different houses in the large 

 ground-floor living rooms, the walls of which are symboli- 

 cally decorated with animal paintings. Reproductions of 

 the painted walls of two of these fraternities are shown in 

 these cases. Each society has one or more shrines on the 

 mountains near the town, and prayer sticks, made by the 

 members at their various festivals, are deposited in them. 



Tools, dies and materials used in Zuni silver working are 

 shown in a case opposite the portrait of Mr. Gushing in the 

 middle of the south wall. This is a comparatively recent 

 art learned from the Mexican Indians or from the Navajo. 

 The tools exhibited belong to the Zuni smith, Lanyati, who 

 learned the art from a Navajo Indian. An exhibit of Navajo 

 silverwork is shown in a case on the south side of the hall 

 immediately opposite and forms an interesting comparison. 

 Proceeding down the hall, dolls and musical instruments 

 are the important features of the cases next following. 



Zuni dolls are made to represent the variously grouped 

 and masked personators of the gods in the religious cere- 

 monies, and are presented by the dancers to the girl chil- 

 dren among the spectators, the idea being to impart re- 

 ligious instruction. The dolls exhibited represent the entire 

 range of Zunian mythology. 



The principal musical instruments of the Zuni are flutes, 

 rattles and drums. Two kinds of flutes, with and without 

 holes, are used, the latter only as dance flutes. Rattles are 

 of seven kinds, gourd, shell, deer hoof, duck, tortoise shell, 



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