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The art of cU'eing is virtually lost. Gussets in sleeves and trousers 

 have been introduced, and whenever the men can raise nionev for the 

 purpose, they have come to wear European dress, includino- hats and 

 shoes. Now even the baby boy who has not a hat is quite out of the 

 fashion. Aboriginal women are much slower than the men to adopt 

 new styles, but in 1902 many of the Zufii women were to be seen 

 wearing a full cotton skirt and blouse waist, such as the Navaho women 

 have worn in warm weather for years. The women now do much of 

 the sewing, and some few are the hapi)y possessors of sewing machines. 

 The artistic pottery is supplanted to a great extent b}- stone china 

 washbowls, used for serving food as well as for bathing, and l)y cheap 

 china and glass dishes. The pottery made at present is very inferior, 

 and is ordered in large quantities bj' traders to supph' the demands of 

 trade. The modern pottery collected by Mr Stevenson in previous 

 years for the National Museum can well be regarded as belonging to 

 the past. In addition to their poor pottery the Zunis are making 

 baskets colored wMth diamond dyes in imitation of the fine basket 

 work of the Hopi pueblo of Oraibi, and sad to relate the beautiful 

 coloring of the Hopi baskets has been supplanted by diamond dves. 

 No one in Zufii who can buy flour now grinds wheat. Lard, yeast 

 powder, coffee, and white sugar have become staple articles with the 

 Zunis. 



While the people themselves are slowh^ but gradually improving 

 their condition of living, the}' are having a hard struggle to preserve 

 the live stock which they labored so industrioush' to secure. The 

 goodly supply of horses and cattle found in Zufii in 1879 dwindled 

 to a small number, owing to the deprepations not onl}' of Navahos 

 and Mexicans, but also of some of the white settlers in the countr}-. 

 The}' have been more fortunate with the sheep and goats, as the ever- 

 watchful eye of the herder has prevented inroads upon them except 

 from time to time by the Navahos. More i"ecently their horses and 

 cattle as well as sheep have increased. 



The wheat fields are now largely protected by barbed-wire fencing, 

 and when the dam now being constructed by the (Toveriuiient is 

 finished the Zufii problem of living will })e settled; but alas, the 

 Zufii as a man and good citizen has fallen far below what he was 

 before he came into intimate contact with civilized man. In 1879 no 

 amount of money could have purchased a genuine Zuni mask, and not 

 for the world would they have manufactured a bogus specimen, so 

 great was their dread of ofiending their gods. It was not until 1890 

 that the writer was able to collect any of the masks of these people. 

 Through her long acquaintance with the priests and their attachment 

 to her she then succeeded in securing nine choice specimens. At 

 present the less orthodox men will manufacture almost anything a 

 collector may desire. Spurious ancient fetishes are made by the 



