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Show THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE Photograph by Neil M. Judd ZUNI BOYS CARRYING A GREAT LOG AFTER THE STYLE OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE: PUEBLO BONITO The Bonitians were great housebuilders, and, while the homes were owned and partly built by the women, the men felled and transported the huge roof timbers and placed them upon the walls. A tremendous amount of labor must have been necessary to bring these great trees from forests many miles away (see text, page 248). had the responsibility of providing for their families, yet the women owned their homes and brooked no interference in purely domestic affairs. Among primitive sedentary peoples this has always been true. Man reigned supreme out of doors, in the chase, for example, or in the fields. The corn was his so long as it remained unharvested, but once dried and safely stored in the dark, inner rooms of the place he called home, possession passed automatically to his better half. At her direction only it was doled out and crushed in the family mealing bins. GRINDING STONES INHERITED FROM ANTIQUITY Step into almost any Pueblo home of to-day and you will find metates (grinding stones) powdered with freshly ground meal. These characteristic stone |