Zuni Breadstuff

ZUÑI BREADSTUFF

It is unnecessary to say that Frank Hamilton Cushing was in such close contact with the Zuñi that he was thoroughly familiar with the topics he wrote about concerning those interesting people. It is for the purpose of making them accessible to students of American ethnology, and especially of the Pueblo Indians, that the articles referred to—which until now were practically inaccessible—are republished in this series.

In preparing the work for publication, no attempt has been made to change the original text, except where it obviously required improvement in punctuation, the correction of typographical and spelling errors, consistency in the spelling of native terms, and the conversion of various terms and expressions to roman type from italics where they were not needed for direct emphasis. All the illustrations used in the original articles are reproduced here, somewhat smaller in size, and several photographic plates from negatives by Mr. Jesse L. Nusbaum, further illustrating the subject, have been introduced.

The following brief sketch of Mr. Cushing’s life and activities was written by

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