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Inscription rock

29482 Inscription Rock, or El Morro (The Castle), as the Spaniards called it, is a striking landmark on the ancient trail between Acoma and Zuni. Beginning with Juan de Onate, who passed here in April, 1605, on his return to the Rio Grande from "the south sea," Spanish explorers and the administrators recorded their names and dates on smooth surfaces of the cliff, which reveal also numerous Indian petroglyphs. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 88.) Two ancient ruined pueblos are found on the top of the rock.

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Zuni / Zuñi Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Inscription rock Inscription Rock, or El Morro (The Castle), as the Spaniards called it, is a striking landmark on the ancient trail between Acoma and Zuni. Beginning with Juan de Onate, who passed here in April, 1605, on his return to the Rio Grande from "the south sea," Spanish explorers and the administrators recorded their names and dates on smooth surfaces of the cliff, which reveal also numerous Indian petroglyphs. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 88.) Two ancient ruined pueblos are found on the top of the rock.
2. Zuni street scene
3. Grinding medicine - Zuni
4. Zuni governor
5. Load of fuel - Zuni
6. Terraced houses of Zuni In the early eighties one of the house-groups of Zuni rose to a height of six well-defined stories. In 1903, when the photograph here reproduced was made, there were five stories. In 1910 a single apartment was four stories from the ground, but in 1919 this room was demolished. Note the bottomless pots forming chimneys, the wooden drain piercing the coping, the hemispherical oven of Spanish provenience on a roof.
7. Zuni girls at the river
8. Lutakawi, Zuni Governor
9. Waihusiwa, a Zuni kyaqimassi Kyaqimassi ("house chief") is the title of the Shiwanni of the north, the most important of all Zuni priests. Waihusiwa in his youth spent the summer and fall of 1886 in the East with Franklin Hamilton Cushing, and was the narrator of much of the lore published in Cushing's Zuni Folk Tales. A highly spiritual man, he is one of the most steadfast of the Zuni priests upholding the traditions of the native religion.
10. Zuni girl
11. Zuni woman
12. Corner of Zuni
13. Zuñi
14. A Zuñi house shrine
15. Zuñi village at Ojo Caliente
16. Zuñi gardens
17. Zuñi pottery
18. A Zuñi doorway
19. Zuñi water carriers
20. Zuñi ornaments
21. Siyotiwa, Zuñi kyaqimassi
22. A Zuñi girl
23. A Zuñi man
24. A Zuñi governor
"Ancient" Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Sia street scene Sia is situated on the north bank of Rio Jemez, a few miles below Jemez pueblo. Ancient Sia, having participated in the revolt of 1680, was completely destroyed and a large number of its inhabitants were killed by Governor Domingo de Cruzate in 1689. The pueblo was rebuilt, probably on nearly the same site, and during the remaining years of this troubled period Sia remained actively friendly with the Spaniards. Once a populous centre, it housed only one hundred and fifty-four persons in 1924.
2. San Ildefonso pottery
3. Inscription rock Inscription Rock, or El Morro (The Castle), as the Spaniards called it, is a striking landmark on the ancient trail between Acoma and Zuni. Beginning with Juan de Onate, who passed here in April, 1605, on his return to the Rio Grande from "the south sea," Spanish explorers and the administrators recorded their names and dates on smooth surfaces of the cliff, which reveal also numerous Indian petroglyphs. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 88.) Two ancient ruined pueblos are found on the top of the rock.
4. Bear Bull - Blackfoot
5. The ancient Arapaho
6. An ancient pottery kiln
7. An ancient Yurok
8. Ancient shore of Salton Sea
9. Remains of ancient fish-pounds - A
10. Remains of ancient fish-pounds - B
11. The ancient shore of Walker Lake
12. A Tesuque ancient
13. Bear Bull
Acoma Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Acoma woman
2. Acoma water girls
3. A morning chat - Acoma
4. An Acoma man
5. Among the rocks - Acoma
6. Fiesta of San Estevan, A - Acoma
7. Fiesta of San Estevan, B - Acoma
8. Procession of San Estevan, A - Acoma
9. Procession of San Estevan, B - Acoma
10. Depositing San Estevan in the booth - Acoma
11. Acoma water carriers
12. Acoma belfry
13. At the gateway - Acoma
14. Acoma from the south
15. Feast day at Acoma
16. Old trail at Acoma
17. Acoma roadway
18. At the old well of Acoma
19. Inscription rock Inscription Rock, or El Morro (The Castle), as the Spaniards called it, is a striking landmark on the ancient trail between Acoma and Zuni. Beginning with Juan de Onate, who passed here in April, 1605, on his return to the Rio Grande from "the south sea," Spanish explorers and the administrators recorded their names and dates on smooth surfaces of the cliff, which reveal also numerous Indian petroglyphs. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 88.) Two ancient ruined pueblos are found on the top of the rock.
20. The Acoma and the enchanted mesa
21. Native conception of a kopishtaia with mask and tablita - Acoma
22. Cliff-perched Acoma
23. Crumbling walls of the old church - Acoma
24. Acoma from the churchtop
25. Church and cemetery - Acoma
26. Mission and church at Acoma
27. Laguna cooking-pot and Acoma water-jars
List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Seventeen Erik Loyer
Contents of this path:
1. Sentinel - San Ildefonso
2. Povi-Tamu
3. Okuwa-tse
4. On the Rio Grande - San Ildefonso
5. Kiva stairs, San Ildefonso Pueblo ceremonial chambers are known as kivas (the Hopi name) or estufas (the name applied to them by the Spaniards under the misapprehension that they were sudatories). They are circular or rectangular, wholly or partly subterranean, or simply cells in the communal structure that forms a pueblo. The character of the underlying soil or rock was probably the factor that determined the degree to which a kiva was made subterranean. The one here illustrated is mostly underground, and has a walled stair leading to the roof, which is surrounded by a parapet. Similar structures have been found in excavating ruined pueblos. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 68.
6. Fruit gatherer - San Ildefonso
7. Offering - San Ildefonso
8. San Ildefonso pottery
9. Tablita dancers and singers - San Ildefonso The ceremony called Koheye-hyare ("tablita dance"), occurring in June and again in September, is characterized by public dancing and singing for the purpose of bringing rain-clouds. The name refers to wooden "tablets" worn by female dancers. (See Volume XVII, illustrations facing pages 56,60,62,64,66,68.) In the plate the performers are dancing in to the plaza, men and women alternating in pairs. At the right is the group of singers, their aged leader slightly in advance and the drummer at one side.
10. In San Ildefonso
11. Girl and jar - San Ildefonso
12. In the gray morning - San Ildefonso
13. Offering to the sun - San Ildefonso
14. From the threshing floor - San Juan
15. Washing wheat - San Juan
16. Street scene at San Juan
17. Ambrosio Martinez - San Juan
18. San Juan pottery
19. Gossiping - San Juan
20. Offering at the waterfall - Nambe
21. Tesuque buffalo dancers The Buffalo dance is performed, though the original object of exerting prenatural influence on the abundance and accessibility of the buffalo no longer prevails. The two male dancers are accompanied by the Buffalo Girl, who is fully clothed in native costume and has a pair of small horns on the head. These three give a very striking and dramatic performance under the watchful eye of the head of the hunters' society.
22. Oyi
23. Potter - Santa Clara
24. Pottery burners at Santa Clara
25. Inscription rock Inscription Rock, or El Morro (The Castle), as the Spaniards called it, is a striking landmark on the ancient trail between Acoma and Zuni. Beginning with Juan de Onate, who passed here in April, 1605, on his return to the Rio Grande from "the south sea," Spanish explorers and the administrators recorded their names and dates on smooth surfaces of the cliff, which reveal also numerous Indian petroglyphs. (See Volume XVII, illustration facing page 88.) Two ancient ruined pueblos are found on the top of the rock.
26. Zuni street scene
27. Grinding medicine - Zuni
28. Zuni governor
29. Load of fuel - Zuni
30. Terraced houses of Zuni In the early eighties one of the house-groups of Zuni rose to a height of six well-defined stories. In 1903, when the photograph here reproduced was made, there were five stories. In 1910 a single apartment was four stories from the ground, but in 1919 this room was demolished. Note the bottomless pots forming chimneys, the wooden drain piercing the coping, the hemispherical oven of Spanish provenience on a roof.
31. Zuni girls at the river
32. Lutakawi, Zuni Governor
33. Waihusiwa, a Zuni kyaqimassi Kyaqimassi ("house chief") is the title of the Shiwanni of the north, the most important of all Zuni priests. Waihusiwa in his youth spent the summer and fall of 1886 in the East with Franklin Hamilton Cushing, and was the narrator of much of the lore published in Cushing's Zuni Folk Tales. A highly spiritual man, he is one of the most steadfast of the Zuni priests upholding the traditions of the native religion.
34. Zuni girl
35. Zuni woman
36. Corner of Zuni