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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo16amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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The American Museum Journal V^OLUME XVI FEBRUARY, 1916 Number 2
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Symbol of the rainbow god worn on the head by a masked dancer impersonating the god The Oldest Town in America and its People By A. L. KROEBER Professor of Anthropology in the University of California THREE hundred and sixty-six years ago the intrepid Spaniard Coro- nado marched a little army north- ward from ^lexieo across the deserts of Sonora and Arizona until in what is now the western part of the state of New Mexico, he found and conquered and occupied a group of Pueblo Indian towns whose fame had reached him under the designation of the "Seven Cities of Cibola," or Zuni. As the years went on one or another of the seven allied towns was abandoned and its inhabitants moved to the central f)ne of the group, Halona, "Place of the Ants." For over two hundred years now, the whole Zuni tribe has concentrated itself in this settlement which is known to Americans as the Pue))lo Zuiii, and to its inhabitants as Ittiwawa, "The Middle Place," for in nati\e belief its site marks the exact center of the earth. With the possible exception of two or three other Pueblo settlements, Zuni is thus the oldest inhabited town in the United States, far surpassing in anti- quity Jamestown, Plymouth, and other early English settlements, as well as 81

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