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Identifier: reportsofexplora03unit_0 (find matches)
Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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ZuBi Indians. by a strip of red cloth trimmed with feathers. These shields are impervious to arrows, andfrequently hard enough to turn aside a ball. The gay colors and waving trails of cloth andfeathers are supposed to be useful as well as ornamental. In battle the Indians are not quietfor a moment, but, with constantly bended knees, leap rapidly from side to side, waving theirshield and its long streamers, for the purpose of dazzling the eyes of their adversaries. Apachesare said to oil their joints before going to battle, in order to make them supple.
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CO O ZUNIANS.—NAVAJOS.—TONTOS. 31 The ZuSians have eyes darker and more piercing than Choctaws. Their dress consists usuallyof huckskin hunting-shirts and fringed moccasins. Their mode of cropping and dressing thehair is nearly the same as that practised hy other Puehlo Indians; sometimes it is parted uponthe forehead and confined hy a hand. It is to he regretted that we ohtained no portrait of thewhite Indians of Zuni; hut the small-pox heing prevalent among them, it was deemed impru-dent to visit their houses. Some of them, however, were seen; having light or auburn hair, faircomplexions, and hlue eyes. It is remarkahle that the first Indian from Zuni seen hy Father deNica in 1539, is described as a white man of fair complexion. A few of that type have existedthere ever since. Plate 22 is intended to represent Navajos. The sketch is given as furnished hy the artist;though, excepting the striped blanket of Navajo manufacture, the portraits differ little fromthose of the

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