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PUEBLO POTTERY AND ZUNI CULTURE-GROWTH. 



chinked with mud. Yet its modern Zufii name i.s hum' pon ne, from 

 ha we, dried brush, sprigs or leaves; and|jo an ne, covering, shelter or 

 roof (po a to place over and ne the nominal suffix); which, interpreted, 

 signifies a "brush or leaf shelter." This leads to the inference that 

 the temporary shelter with which the Zunis were acquainted when they 

 formulated the name here given, presumably in their earliest condition, 

 w;is in shape like the Navajo hogan, but in material, of brush or like 

 perishable substance. 



The archaic name for a building or walled inclosnre is he sho ta, a 

 contraction of the now obsolete term, he sho ta pon tie, from he sho, gum, 

 or resin-like; sh6 tai e, leaned or placed together convergingly; and 

 ta po an ne, a roof of wood or a roof supported by wood. 



The meaning of all this would be obscure did not the oldest remains of 

 the Pueblos occur in the almost inaccessible lava-wastes bordering the 

 southwestern deserts and intersecting them and were not the houses of 

 these ruins built on the plan of shelters, round (see Figs. 491, 492, 493), 





Fig. 491. — Perspective view of earliest or Round-house structure of lava. 



rather than rectangular. Furthermore, not only does the lava-rock of 

 which their walls have been rudely constructed resemble natural as- 

 phaltum (he sho) and possess a cleavage exactly like that of pinon-gum 

 and allied substances (also he sho), but some forms of lava are actually 

 known as a he sho or gum-rock. From these considerations inferring 

 that the name he sho ta pon ne derivatively signifies something like " a 

 gum-rock shelter with roof supports of wood," we may also infer that 

 the Pueblos on their coming into the desert regions dispossessed earlier 

 inhabitants or that they chose the lava-wastes the better to secure 



