The marvellous country, or, Three years in Arizona and New Mexico.: Containing an authentic history of this wonderful country and its ancient civilization ... together with a full and complete history of the Apache tribe of Indians .../ By Samuel Woodworth Cozzens. Illustrated by more than one hundred engravings.

THE WOMEN OF ZUNI.
dollars) for, Don Rafael would purchase for seventy-five
cents; and all other articles at proportionately low prices.
As a tribe, the Zunis are a fine]y-formed and intelligent
race. They wear their hair knotted behind, and bound with
gay ribbons or braid. In front it is cut square across, so
as to completely crover the forehead,- a custom common to
all the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and one which
easily distinguishes them from the wild Indians who lawlessly roam through the country. The only covering that
they wear upon their heads is a handkerchief, tied like
a band from the forehead to the back of the head; this
is sometimes decorated with feathers.
The Zunis claim to have inhabited their country since
the world was made, and that as it grew, they became
separated from the other tribes, and have ever since maintained a distinct organization.
Many of their women are really handsome,- so goodlooking, in fact, that I soon began to fear the effect their
charms might produce upon the too susceptible heart of
Jimmy; and had I not placed great faith in the fear which
my stories of their cruel and inhuman treatment towards
their prisoners had aroused in his breast, I should have
felt very certain that negotiations for another "matrimonial alliance" would have been immediately commenced,negotiations which e feared might result in a most disastious manner to our present plans. Deeming it judicious
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