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While tlio writer hits gone deojjly into the sul)jeet of the i-elioion of 

 the Zufiis, and is abh: to record the more important details of th(>ir 

 philosophy, there are yet many fields to be worked, and an att(Miipt 

 at drawing- final conelusions will not be made nntil more extensive 

 studies of allied tribes have been undertaken. If that which is hero 

 presented serves as a basis for future investig-ation. and aids the (Jov- 

 ernment to a better understanding of the North American Indians, the 

 author will have succeeded in her purpose. 



Whatever has been accomplished l)y the writer at Zuni and else- 

 where is largely due to the training and instruction received from her 

 lamented husband and companion, James Stevenson. Much of the 

 present volume is based on his notes and records. His plans for 

 ethnologic research were far-reaching, and lu». expected to give many 

 3^ears to their completion. His life was devoted to the establishment 

 and development of scientific institutions, and it is lai-gely to his 

 efiorts, in support of those of Major J. W. Powell, that the Bureau 

 of Ethnology owes its origin and success. His reputation for careful 

 investigation, and a high sense of integrity, is too well known to 

 require further comment in these pages. 



To Mr W. H. Holmes, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 the writer is indebted for uniform courtes}' and for opportunities 

 afforded in the prosecution of her recent studies in Zuni. Acknowl- 

 edgments are due for courtesies extended during the long period of 

 the writers investigations in the Southwest, among others, by Colonel 

 G. G. Huntt, Captain Herbert H. Sargent, Captain Curtis B. Hoppin, 

 Captain Guy Carlton, Dr Washington ^latthews. Major Erancis H, 

 Hardie, Lieutenant Clarence K. IHiy, and Lieutenant II. B. rioi-dan. of 

 the United States Army; Honorable Henry M. Teller, United States 

 Senate; Honorable Robert Adams, jr.. House of Representatives: Dr 

 Reginald H. Sayre; Dr George Tully \'aughan, Assistant Surgeon- 

 General Marine-Hospital Service; Mr J. D. McChesney, of the United 

 States Geological Survey: ]\Ir F. Y. Coville. Botanist. Department of 

 Agriculture; Mr J. N. Rose, United States National Muscmiui: Mr B. C. 

 Warman, editor. United States Geological Survey: Mr William liar- 

 num of the Carnegie Institution; and Mr Douglas D. (iraharn. at 

 present United States agent to the Zufiis. Mr Graham's inten^st in the 

 success of the representatives of the Bureau of Ameiiran l^tluKtlogy 

 has been exhibited in the most effective manner for twenty years or 

 more, and his generous aid. not only to the writer but to others in the 

 employ of the Government who have visited Zuni i)iieltl<>. has jn many 

 ways been invaluabl(\ 



The writer is under obligations also to her Zuni friends, among whom 

 are nmnbered not only the priests and theiirgists. but also the women 

 and children, who ever manifested a pleasing readiness to serve her. 



