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Few of the great groups of American aborigines have 

 proved of equal interest with the tribes of the arid region. 

 The Pueblo towns were first visited by white men in 1540, 

 when the Coronado expedition penetrated the vast plateaus of 

 the Colorado and the Rio Grande, but the world knew little of 

 the j)eople until New Mexico passed into the possession of the 

 United States. During the middle of the last century mem- 

 bers of military exploring expeditions under Sitgreaves, Ives, 

 Emory, Simpson, Whipple, and others prepared short accounts 

 of their observations among the Pueblos, and later the Powell 

 Survey in 1874, the Hayden Survey in 1874, and the Wheeler 

 Expedition in 1879 brought several of the villages to public 

 notice. More recently the Bureau of American Ethnology, as 

 well as a number of other institutions, have conducted scien- 

 tific investigations of importance among the Pueblo tribes. 



The pueblo of Zufii has attracted more attention than the 

 other towns. In 1879 Mr Frank Htimilton Cushing was 

 selected by Major Powell to take up his residence in this 

 pueblo with the view of mastering the language and of mak- 

 ing a thorough study of the manners and customs of the people. 

 Although the results of his researches have never appeared in 

 full, a number of valuable pa})ers have been published. "My 

 Adventures in Zuni" appeared in The Century Magazine for 

 February to ^lay, 1883. A series of articles on " Zuni Bread- 

 tuifs" was pubhshed in The Millstone during 1884-188G. A 

 memoir on "Zuni Fetiches" appeared in the Second Annual 

 Report of the Bureau; "Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of 

 Zuni Culture Growth," in the Fourth Annual Report, and 

 "Zuni Creation Myths" in the Thirteenth Annual Report. A 

 work on "Zuni Folk Tales" appeared after Mr Cushing's 

 death, and the great store of information obtained by him 



