Zuni Breadstuff

AND MONOGRAPHS
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FOREWORD

This series of articles on Zuñi Bread-stuff was first published in The Millstone of Indianapolis (a trade magazine that has long since stopped publication), in its issues spanning from volume IX, January 1884, to volume X, August 1885. Later, an attempt was made to reprint the articles in a shortened form in Milling of Chicago, but only the first nine chapters appeared this way, spanning from volume III, no. 2, July 1893, to volume IV, no. 4, March 1894, when their publication ended. Mr. Cushing’s account of the subject is so filled with information regarding not only the food products of the Zuñi tribe—with whom he lived as an adopted member from 1879 until 1884—but also their methods of preparation and the myths, ceremonies, and daily customs related to them.