a special
privilege which is rarely accepted. If she accepts she passes through
both ceremonials described. She chooses her godfather, who gives her
for the first ceremony a woman's blanket and for the second a woman's
dress, a white blanket, a quantity of blue yarn, a woman's belt, a
buckskin, a sacred blanket, and the mask she is to wear. But even
here in Zuni, where the people are so controlled by the priests and
have such a superstitious dread of disobeying the commands of the
K[=o]k-k[=o], women have been guilty of desecrating their sacred
office and marrying. At present there is a woman of the order of the
K[=o]k-k[=o] married to a Navajo. She is of course forever afterwards
debarred from joining in the ceremonials, but she is permitted to live
among her people with no other punishment than their indignation.

INDEX.

Gilbert, G.K., visit of, to Zuni 540
Kaek-l[=o] of Zuni mythology 544, 547
Kiva, the Zuni religious house 544, 547, 549, 552
K[=o]k-k[=o], the Zuni order of the 540-548
admission of women into the 540-555
involuntary initiation into the 547-553
voluntary initiation into the 553-555
Moseley, H.N., visit of, to Zuni 540
Mythology, brief account of Zuni 539-545
Pueblo of Zuni, location of 539
Religious life of the Zuni child, by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson l-liii,
533-555
Stevenson, Mrs. Tilly E., on the religious life of the Zuni child
l-liii, 533-555
Turner, H.L., visit of, to Zuni 542
Tylor, E.B., visit of, to Zuni 540
Yucca blades in Zuni ceremonial 550, 551, 553, 555
Zuni, religious life of children among the, by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson
l-liii, 533-555

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