Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. / The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando De Soto by the Gentleman of Elvas

by active 16th century Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; active 16th century Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera; Knight of Elvas

[476] The Rio Grande, as previously described.

[477] The Sandia Mountains.

[478] The pueblo of Picuris, about twenty miles south of Taos. This is a Tigua village of about 125 inhabitants.

[479] Compare the previous reference to Tutahaco (p. 314). Both the distance and the direction here given seem to be erroneous.

[480] This would indicate the existence of a true communal system that does not prevail at the present time.

[481] See Voth, "Oraibi Marriage Customs," American Anthropologist, II. 238 (1900).

[482] The American turkey cocks.

[483] A custom still common at Zuñi and other pueblos. Before the introduction of manufactured dyes the Pueblos used urine as a mordant.

[484] See Mindeleff's "Pueblo Architecture," in the Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, p. 208; also Cushing, "Zuñi Breadstuff," in The Millstone (Indianapolis, 1884-1885).

[485] A number of memoirs on the pottery of the ancient Pueblos may be consulted in the Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology.