ZUNIANS.—NAVAJOS.—TONTOS. 
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The Zunians have eyes darker and more piercing than Choctaws. Their dress consists usually 
of buckskin hunting-shirts and fringed moccasins. Their mode of cropping and dressing the 
hair is nearly the same as that practised by other Pueblo Indians; sometimes it is parted upon 
the forehead and confined by a band. It is to be regretted that we obtained no portrait of the 
white Indians of Zuni; but the small-pox being prevalent among them, it was deemed impru¬ 
dent to visit their houses. Some of them, however, were seen; having light or auburn hair, fair 
complexions, and blue eyes. It is remarkable that the first Indian from Zuni seen by Father de 
Niga in 1539, is described as a “white man of fair complexion.” A few of tlxat type have existed 
there ever since. 
Plate 22 is intended to represent Navajos. The sketch is given as furnished by the artist; 
though, excepting the striped blanket of Navajo manufacture, the portraits differ little from 
those of the Pueblo Indians. One is represented with hair cut squarely in front to the eye¬ 
brows—a custom not heretofore attributed to any of the Apache race. The Navajos are distin- 
Plate 23. 
Tontos. 
