The comparative civilization of the Pueblo Indians has always attracted the attention of the ethnologist. Until lately, however, he had but a minimum amount of trustworthy information concerning either their habits or their language. He has now a fair amount of data for both. For philological purposes he has vocabularies for six (probably for all) of them.
Of the Pueblo languages two belong to the drainage of the Rio Colorado and four to that of the Rio Grande. Of these two divisions the former lies the farthest west, and, of the two Colorado Pueblos, the most western is that of
The Moqui.—The Moqui vocabulary was procured by Lieut. Simpson from a Moqui Indian who happened to be at Chelly.
The Zuni country lies in 35° north latitude, to the south and east of the Moqui, and is probably divided by the Sierra de Zuni from
The Acoma, or Laguna, the most southern of the Pueblos of the Rio Grande. North of the Acoma area lies that of
The Jemez, on the San Josef.
The two that still stand over lie on the main stream of the Rio Grande itself. They are—
The Tesuque; and
The Taos or Picuri.—The northern boundaries of the Tesuque seem to be the southern ones of Taos. Connect these Pueblos with the town of Taos, and the Tesuque with Santa Fé, and the ordinary maps give us the geography.