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Title: Zuni Fetiches
Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881,
Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 3-45

Author: Frank Hamilton Cushing

Release Date: December 9, 2006 [EBook #20067]

Language: English

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.

ZUNI FETICHES.

BY

FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING.

CONTENTS.

Zuni philosophy 9
Worship of animals 11
Origin of Zuni Fetichism 12
The Zuni Iliad 12
The Drying of the World 13
Power of the Fetiches 15
Prey Gods of the Six Regions 16
Their origin 16
Po-shai-a[n,]-k'ia 16
Their power as mediators 18
Mi-tsi 18
Their worship 19
Prey Gods of the Hunt 20
Their relation to the others 20
Their origin 20
The distribution of the animals 21
Their varieties 24
The Mountain Lion--Hunter God of the North 25
The Coyote--Hunter God of the West 26
The Wild Cat--Hunter God of the