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Zuni

 Subject
Subject Source: Gilcrease Dci People

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Adobe building with an outdoor oven, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.258.52
Description

Adobe building with an outdoor oven. Photo attached to black album page with TU2009.39.258.51 on reverse. Handwritten below image, "Bread ovens Zuni."



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Bread ovens Zuni" in lower left on recto

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Groups of tipis arranged in lines on the prairie, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.258.17
Description

Groups of tipis arranged in lines on the prairie. Photo attached to black album page with TU2009.39.258.18 on reverse. Handwritten below the image, "Zuni Camp during sandstorm."



Inscription(s)

Inscribed, "Zuni Camp during sandstorm" in lower center on recto

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

"Zuni Baking Day", early 20th century

 Item — Folder 437: [Barcode: 127.437]
Identifier: 5327.534
Description Folder 437 Transcript (DCI) [single page document typed on lined note paper]ZUNI BAKING DAYThe Zuni maiden bakes excellent bread in her oven. We call it a Dutch oven, but the Zunis have had this type of oven [illegible - 2 words crossed out] as far back as the white man’s knowledge of them goes. Her costume is her adaptation from the whites. The peton hanging down her back is purely ornamental. The buckskin wrappings...
Dates: early 20th century