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Show published in the national periodical Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in May, 116 1883t" One day . . . a procession of fifty men went hastily down the hill, and off westward over the plain. They were solemnly led by a painted and shell-bedecked priest, and followed by the torch-bearing Shu-lu-wit-si, or God of Fire. After they had vanished, I asked old brother what it all meant. "They are going," said he, "to the city of the (Kokko) and the home of our others." Four days after, toward sunset, costumed and masked in the beautiful paraphernalia of the Ka-k'ok-shi, or "Good Dance," they returned in file up the same pathway . . . Cushing learned that members of the group were returning with tortoises, and that these tortoises were believed to be lost relatives (hearkening back to the migration narrative and the children dropped by their mothers into the river). When Cushing asked why they didn't feed the turtles and give them water, the Zunis replied that the "turtles" couldn't die, they would only change houses and go back to Kolhu/walatwa. 117 116. Cushing, Frank Hamilton M_/ Adventures in Zuni; The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine; Vol. XXVI, No. 1 (May, 1883), p. 45-47. Cushing, Frank Hamilton My_ Adventures at Zuni, Filter Press, Palmer Lake, Colorado, 1967, pp. 47-49, a reprint of Cushing's work with an introduction by Oakah L. Jones, Jr. Green, Jesse Zunit Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, 1979, pp. 46-134, also provides a reprint of Cushing's piece. Curtis, William E. Children of the Sun; Chicago; The Inter-Ocean Publishing Co.; 1883; pp. 68-69, also quotes Cushing on the subject. 117. Cushing, 1967, og. cit., p. 48. - 78 - |
