The Zuñi are a Southwest American Indian nation. Their spiritual beliefs center around elaborate ceremonies for fertility and rain, comprised of a yearly cycle of ritual dances by masked dancing gods called Kachinas. This section provides detailed ethographic descriptions of Zuñi spiritual beliefs, which permeate every aspect of their culture. By Ruth Bunzel: from The Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1929-1930: 
Table of Zuñi Sounds
Introduction to Zuñi Ceremonialism
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Zuñi Origin Myths
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Zuñi Ritual Poetry
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Cushing: Zuñi Folk Tales
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Outline of Zuñi Mytho-Sociologic OrganizationThirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 367-73, [1891-1892]
Zuñi FetichesSecond Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1880-1881, pp. 9-15, 30-31 [1883]
Remarks on ShamanismProceedings of the American Philosophical Society 36:184-92. [1897]
Form and Form and the Dance DramaThirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1891-1892, p. 362 and 374-77. [1896]
Corn Raising: The Decay of the SeedMillstone 9, no. 5, pp. 75-78. [1884]
Corn Raising: The Regeneration of the SeedMillstone 9, no. 6, pp. 93-95. [1884]
Clowns, Priests, and Festivals of the Kâ'-kâMillstone 10, no. 8, pp. 141-44. [1885]
Creation and the Origin of CornMillstone 9, no. 1, pp. 1-3. [1884] |
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