A Zuni Village

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The top illustration represents a Zuni village, in New Mexico. The portrait below represents one of the buildings at close quarters, in which it is clearly apparent that one story is built on tup of another, with entrances on the outside by means of ladders. There is a legend concerning the plateau visible just above and across the river from the top picture, that many, many years ago

the water in the river rose higher and higher, until the whole village was swallowed up. The people fled to the plateau for safety, and the water rose until it was within a very small margin of the top thereof. In order to appease the gods, the chief

and his daughter threw themselves into the boiling maelstrom and the water then subsided. When it became natural again, the two arose in the form of stone statues, as

represented in the portrait below, and stand to this day as sentinels near the village.