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Zunian

  • a word derived from Zuni.
Zuñian
  • a word derived from Zuni.
  • a word derived from Zuñi.

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Some of these families, like the Algonquian and Athapascan, occupied great districts and contained many languages; others, like the Zuñian, took up only a few square miles of space and contained a single tribe.

From American Indians by Starr, Frederick

This dance, an elaborate corn-dance, is said to be an ancient ceremony, and is, next in importance to the dedication of the houses, one of the most striking events in the Zuñian calendar.

From Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

The different forms of this figure found on this ware furnish, perhaps the best evidence of taste exhibited by the Zuñian artists.

From Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428 by Stevenson, James

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