Chamberlain, Von Del (Author)
Nahohai, Milford (Author)
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Volume: 23
Issue: 3
Pages: 452-464
The people now living at Zuni Pueblo in northwestern New Mexico have a rich heritage that includes knowledge of fundamental observational astronomy. Zuni cosmological traditions began to be known by scholars in the late nineteenth century. Zuni practices included the use of stone fetishes that started when people found natural stones resembling an animal or other element of great importance within the culture. Eventually, features were added by minimal carving to accentuate significant parts of the objects. As time went on, more and more alterations produced ever-finer renderings of the fetishes, and they became known by growing numbers of people outside the Zuni culture. Today, many skilled carvers make large numbers of carvings as an art form and sell their work throughout the world. In the beginning the figures were carved from stones found near Zuni, but today they can be made from all sorts of materials found anywhere in the world. Most common figures are animals such as mountain lions, bears, badgers, wolves, and eagles, along with some human figures, especially corn maidens. A goodly amount of astronomical symbolism, including Sun, Moon, stars, solstices and relationships between these and other things, is represented by and on these renderings and that is the topic of this paper.
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