30 ZUNIANS.—DRESS AND ORNAMENTS. 
favorite article of dress. The hair is rudely clipped or parted upon the forehead, and falls 
behind upon the shoulders. Sometimes it is braided and bound into a queue. A tiara or band 
is frequently worn around the head. This people do not appear to have an excessive regard for 
ornaments; the women are content with a string of beads and a cross. 
Plate 21 represents a chief and a warrior of the pueblo of Zuñi. The chief holdsin his hands 
a spear and a chimal. The latter, however, is in truth atrophy won from the Navajos, and not 
of Zuni manufacture. It is made of bull-hide, curiously painted in colors, and nearly surrounded 
PLATE 21. 
Zufti Indians. 
by a strip of red cloth trimmed with feathers. "These shields are impervious to arrows, and 
frequently hard enough to turn aside a ball. The gay colors and waving trails of cloth and 
feathers are supposed to be useful as well as ornamental. In battle the Indians are not quiet 
for a moment, but, with constantly bended knees, leap rapidly from side to side, waving their 
shield and its long streamers, for the purpose of dazzling the eyes of their adversaries. Apaches 
are said to oil their joints before going to battle, in order to make them supple. 
