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Zuni Indians: Carvings
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In the earlier days af that age when Native Zuni clans roamed an area that is now the Southwestern United States, they made pottery for food and water storage. Women made pottery according to the clan's tradition of functionality and design. Clay for the pottery is sourced locally and thanks is given to the Earth Mother (Awitelin Tsita) according to ritual prior to extraction. It is prepared first by grinding, and then sifting and mixing with water. After the clay is shaped into a vessel or ornament, it will be scraped smooth with a scraper. Then a thin layer of finer clay will be applied to the surface for extra smoothness.
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The Zuni towns centered on the Little Colorado River drainage. As trading middlemen between the Anasazi world and other cul-tures of the Southwest, the Zuni played a central role in the transmission of trade items and Cultural values.
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During the seventeenth century there was a decline in the Zuni population and subsequently, in the number of occupied villages. The attrition was the result political pressure from the Spaniards, and raiding from the Navajo and Apache. Violence soon became a regular part of the otherwise peaceful Zuni as they defended their land and resources from encroachment from other groups and resisted Spanish attempts to suppress their culture and religion.
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A glaucoma-screening examination was performed on 119 full-blooded Zuni Indians and 286 control subjects who were aged 40 years or older. The mean intraocular pressure (IOP) of the Zuni Indians was significantly lower than that of the control group, adjusted for age and sex differences, in both diabetic and nondiabetic subjects. The control group demonstrated an increasing IOP with age, while the Zunis did not. The prevalence of ocular hypertension was significantly greater in the control group than in the Zunis. The majority of the Zuni subjects with ocular hypertension had diabetes mellitus. None of the Zuni Indians who were screened had primary open-angle glaucoma and none had a family history of glaucoma.
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Photograph of a Zuni Indian making wampum, ca.1898. He is seen using some type of primitive drilling device to drill a hole into an object he placed on the stool. The stool is held together with metallic wires. The man is sitting on a short square crate. He is wearing a buttoned up collar shirt and has turban-like headband wrapped around his head. He stares off to his left while using his right leg to hold the stool and his arms to do the drilling.
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In 1967 a MK-32 Zuni rocket was responsible for a fire on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal leading to the loss of 134 lives. Again, in 1969 a MK-32 Zuni rocket was responsible for a fire on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise leading to the loss of 27 lives and an additional 314 injured. Fifteen aircraft were destroyed.
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