ADMINISTRATIVK REPORT XVII 



on adoption, chiefs, clans and gentes, confederations, govern- 

 ment, niytholog}-, scalping, ^^'am])vun, and women. The work 

 of cataloguing the collection of linguistic manuscripts, of 

 which Mr Hewitt is custodian, was completed as far as 

 copying the old cards in duplicate, when the work was laid 

 aside for that of the Ihuidhook. He also gave material assist- 

 ance in furnishing data requu-ed in the correspondence of 

 the Bui-eau relating to tribes and languages. 



Mrs M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, spent the month of July 

 m New Mexico, where she had ])een for some months making 

 a study of the arts, industries, religion, and social customs 

 of the Zuili tribe. It was observed that the Zuiii pantheon 

 is largely similar to that of the Hopi and the Rio Grande 

 pueblos. Although the Zuhi worship numerous deities which 

 take both human and Ijestial form, they believe also in a 

 supreme power without form, yet embrading all form, the 

 breath of life — life itself. These beliefs indicate that the 

 Ziuli have reached a higher stage of culture than has previ- 

 ously been supposed, although it can not yet be said to what 

 extent this may be attriinited to the Spanish influence to 

 which the tribe was more or less subjected for three centuries. 

 Various details relating to Zuhi life were investigated, and 

 valuable information regarding mortuaiy customs was 

 obtained through the death and Inuial of Naiuchi, a cele- 

 brated priest-chief, whose demise occurred dining Mrs 

 Stevenson's stay in Zuhi pueblo. Native plants entering into 

 the medicine and dietary of the Zuhi were also studied ; the 

 arts of preparing and dyeing wool, which have not been 

 practised for many years, were observed, and specimens of 

 the native materials and devices employed in the process, as 

 well as of the dyed wool, were collected. Studies of symljol- 

 ism as embodied in Zmli iextile and ceramic art, and investi- 

 gations into the everyday life, and especially the child life, 

 of the pueblo were likewise made. 



Early in August a day was spent by Mrs Stevenson with 

 the Santa Clara Indians in making a series of photogi-aphs 

 of their annual fiesta. The month was occupied princij)ally, 

 however, in a study of the Sia Indians, a few days being given 



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