---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 20
number: 3
published: 1917-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"A Zuni Village,\" *Improvement Era* 20, no. 3 (January 1917): 239."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2003unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2003unse
start_page: 239
end_page: 239
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2003unse
  publication_year: 1917
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# A Zuni Village

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*     v;

        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.