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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



TWO BEAUTIES OF THE ZUN1 



The Zufii women are attractive Indian types when young ; the 

 Zuni pottery still is made according to aboriginal methods and pat- 

 terns. The latter is as distinctive for its coloring as is the exquisite 

 ware of the Chaco Canyon for its black and white design. 



with the addition of a curved wall binding 

 the ends of the E projections and form- 

 ing inner courts. The other ruin to be 

 studied, Pueblo Bonito (bonito — beauti- 

 ful), is a D-shaped building, with its 

 curved wall 800 feet long. 



Archeologically this ancient Island of 

 Manhattan, surrounded by a sea of sand, 

 may accurately be described as "a hun- 

 dred miles from anywhere"; for it is 100 

 miles north to the cliff dwellings of the 

 Mesa Verde, 100 miles south to the an- 

 cient Zuni towns, and 100 miles west to 

 the ancestral site of the Hopis. 



A reconnaissance party dispatched last 



summer made a re- 

 port which, when ex- 

 amined by The So- 

 ciety's research com- 

 mittee, bristled with 

 such interesting scien- 

 tific problems that au- 

 thorization and appro- 

 priation were made for 

 the expedition which 

 begins its work this 

 summer, under the 

 leadership of Neil M. 

 Judd, curator, Ameri- 

 can Archeology, U. S. 

 National Museum. 



Within an area less 

 than half that of the 

 District of Columbia 

 there are eighteen 

 enormous community 

 houses having from 

 100 to 800 or more 

 rooms. There also are 

 other structure types, 

 such as the three- to 

 twelve-room dwell- 

 ings, groups of "talus 

 pueblos" under the 

 wall of the canyon, 

 in the immediate vi- 

 cinity of the large 

 buildings, and tiny cliff 

 houses and storage 

 cists under the canyon 

 wall itself. 



Then there are cir- 

 cular structures, ad- 

 jacent to both large 

 and small dwellings, 

 and a semi-subter- 

 ranean home built of 

 mud instead of stone — the last mentioned 

 found by The Geographic's reconnais- 

 sance party — which points to possibility 

 of other ruins of greater antiquity that 

 will be invaluable in tracing the develop- 

 ment of this aboriginal civilization. The 

 existence of these last mentioned in the 

 Chaco Canyon region had not previously 

 been suspected. 



If tlie major groups were inhabited 

 simultaneously, it is estimated the can- 

 yon population could not have been less 

 than 10,000. This Indian city lay in a 

 region so unfriendly that even the 

 nomadic Navajo has not attempted to 



