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A:Shiwi Edward S. Curtis: A Corner of Zuni Zuni Pueblo Timothy O'Sullivan: Section of south side of Zuni Pueblo, N.M. Edward S. Curtis: Zuni Potter A:Shiwi water jar mask of the Zuni kachina Sekya Zuni water jar
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A:Shiwi Women balancing pots on their heads in an A:Shiwi ceremony in Gallup, New Mexico on July 21, 2016.

A:Shiwi

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Also known as: Zuñi, Zuni
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A:Shiwi, Indigenous North American group in what is now west-central New Mexico, on the Arizona border. The A:Shiwi are a Pueblo people and speak Shiwi’ma, an isolate language in the Penutian language grouping. They are believed to be descendants of the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi). A:Shiwi traditions depict a past in which their ancestors emerged from underground and eventually settled at the tribe’s present location. When Pueblo groups first encountered Spanish colonizers in the 16th...

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