A STUDY OF PUEBLO POTTERY AS ILLUSTRATIVE 

 OF ZUN1 CULTURE-GROWTH. 



By Frank H. Gushing. 



HABITATIONS AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENT. 



It is conceded that the peculiarities of a culture-status are due chiefly 

 to the uecessities encountered during its development. In this sense 

 the Fueblo phase of life was, like the Egyptian, the product of a desert 

 environment. Given that a tribe or stock of people is weak, they will 

 be encroached upon by neighboring stronger tribes, and driven to new 

 surroundings if uot subdued. Such we may believe was the influence 

 which led the ancestors of the Pueblo tribes to adopt an almost water- 

 less area'for their habitat. 



It is apparent at least that they entered the country wherein their 

 remains occur while comparatively a rude people, and worked out there 

 almost wholly their incipient civilization. Of this there is important 

 linguistic evidence. 





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Fig. 190.— A Navsyohut. 



A Navajo hogan, or hut, is a beehive-shaped or conical structure 

 (see Fig. 190) of sticks and turf or earth, sometimes even of stones 



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