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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Seventeen

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Volume Seventeen Illustrations and Portfolio Images Erik Loyer
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1. List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Seventeen
2. Vol. 17 Illustrations

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Sentinel - San Ildefonso
Povi-Tamu
Okuwa-tse
On the Rio Grande - San Ildefonso
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.
Fruit gatherer - San Ildefonso
Offering - San Ildefonso
San Ildefonso pottery
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.
In San Ildefonso
Girl and jar - San Ildefonso
In the gray morning - San Ildefonso
Offering to the sun - San Ildefonso
From the threshing floor - San Juan
Washing wheat - San Juan
Street scene at San Juan
Ambrosio Martinez - San Juan
San Juan pottery
Gossiping - San Juan
Offering at the waterfall - Nambe
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.
Oyi
Potter - Santa Clara
Pottery burners at Santa Clara
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.
Zuni street scene
Grinding medicine - Zuni
Zuni governor
Load of fuel - Zuni
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.
Zuni girls at the river
Lutakawi, Zuni Governor
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.
Zuni girl
Zuni woman
Corner of Zuni