Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900 · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 683
625 CORN FESTIVALS erect like the spines in a sea-monster's dorsal fin. All over the head and body of these figures are little patches of snowy eagle-down, stuck on with wild honey, to represent scales. The mendicants are dressed in the armlets, wristlets, sashes, and badges of war to proclaim… … Fig. 13. — Zuni mendicants' thirsty proclivities. They are armed with bows and long arrows tipped with corn- cobs. This latter circumstance is fortu- nate for the Ne'-we and Ka! -ye-ma-shi; for no sooner does one of the latter succeed in gathering up a blanket-load of he'-icc, corn, or other…
Zuni Indians · Indians of North America
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