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Show Dr director of the Zuni Archeological Team1 stated that b d" d d urlng between Zuni and Houck has been severely "d une. over y san 700 years.' None of her archeologists had been Into the area. Caroline Davis 1 • the area the past . A I so contacted in Zun i were the fo I 'ow i fig: Gordon Psvwa 1 Fish and Game Pueblo of Zuni; Dr. Ralph Casebolt1 director1 Division of Education1 Pueblo of Zuni; and John GraY1 officer-in-charge1 Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1 Maps used: USGS AMS Gal Jup; AHD Apache County Sheet 9; New Mexico Highway Department Quadrangle 371 U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Operations1 Zuni Pueblo Map Atlas1 SoiJ and Range Inventory of the Zuni Indian Reservation (1970)1 Sheets 21 2A, 6-8. November 25 RESEARCH AND through December 12 INTERPRETATION (No travel) w. L. Rusho Although it has been conjectured that Dominguez and Escalante remained in Zuni for over two weeks primari Iy to rest and to put finishing touches on their diary, it is more probable that they were waiting for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which took on December 12. As place Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patron saint of the Zuni Mission, this feast was probably the biggest event of the year. Escalante1 stil I iechnically assigned to this mission as one of two ministers (the other was Fray Jose Mariano Rosete y Peralta) would have been expected to assist with preparations. was his Dominguez also had duties in Zuni. As official "canonical visitor," required to inspect and to report on al I of the New Mexican missions. report he wrote that his visitation of the Zuni Mission was made on Decembr 9, 1776. he In . Built in 1629, the old mission church sti I I the Zuni Pueblo. Abandoned in 1821, the stands in the center of fel I into ruins. But by action of the Zuni Tribe1 the Catholic Diocese of and the National Gallup, Park Service, the church was completely restored in the late 19605 and early 1970s. The convent where the padres lived, which had been attached to the south side of the church, was not restored. building RESEARCH METHODS 4eldon Hl ckev , O.F.M'1 of St. Anthony Mission in Zuni, conducted researchers C. Gregory Crampton, Don Cecala, and W. L. Rusho through the old Zuni Church on July 81 1975. ' Reference was made to the report by Dominguez, published as The Missions of New Mexic01 1776, A Description by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, translated and annotated by Eleanor B. Adams and Fray Angelico Chavez (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1956), and to Old Zuni Mission (Zuni: Franciscan Fathers of the St. Anthony's Mission), a magazine containing a brief history of the church and its restoration. -200- |
