Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuñi Pueblos - Flutopedia.com

2 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Bull. 165
and the Rio Grande. It was the seat of the Franciscan mission of
San Antonio de Isleta prior to 1629. The population of Isleta in
1680 was about 2,000 when the Spanish settlers along the lower Rio
Grande took refuge in this pueblo after the uprising that year. Isleta
was later abandoned. It is said that the present pueblo was buUt
in 1709 by scattered families of Tigua, gathered by the missionary
Juan de la Pena. The population of Isleta was about 1,100 in the
early part of the present century.
The Cochiti is a tribe belonging to the eastern branch of the Keresan
linguistic family, living on the west bank of the Rio Grande, 27 miles
southwest of Santa Fe, N. Mex. They were found living in this location
by Onate in 1596. They "took an active part in the revolt of
1680, but remained in their pueblo for 15 months after the outbreak.
.... Cochiti was the seat of the Spanish mission of San Bonaventura,
with 300 inhabitants in 1680, but it was reduced to a visita of San
Domingo after 1782 . . . The Cochiti people occupy a grant of
24,250 acres allotted to them by the Spanish government and confirmed
by United States patent in 1854."
Zuni is the popular name of a Pueblo tribe which constitutes the
Zunian linguistic family. Their home is a permanent pueblo by the
same name, on the north bank of the upper Zuni River in Valencia
Coimty, N. Mex,, and in summer they also occupy the three neighboring
farming villages of Pescado, Nutria, and Ojo Caliente. "The
first real information regarding the Zuni tribe and their seven pueblos
was gained by Fray Marcos of Niza, who in 1539 set out ... to
explore the unknown region to the northwest , . . The first Zuni
mission was established at Hawikuh by the Franciscans in the summer
of 1629 ... At the time of the great Pueblo rebellion of 1680 the
Zuni occupied but three towns, excluding Hawikuh." The Zuni "are
quiet, good tempered, and industrious, friendly toward the Americans
but jealous and distrustful of the Mexicans and bitter enemies of the
Navaho. They adhere tenaciously to their ancient religion, which
is closely interwoven with their social organization. . . . In 1910 the
population was 1,640."
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS *
The information concerning musical instruments was supplied
chiefly by the Acoma. This was not a subject of special inquiiy with
the Isleta and Cochiti singers, but some data were obtained from the
Zuni singer.
* Grateful acknowledgment is made of the courtesy of Dr. Walter Hough, curator of anthropology, U. S.
National Museum, who allowed the Acoma to select from the exhibit cases the musical instruments, ceremonial
articles, and the ring used on a woman's head when carrying a jar, shown In the accompanying
Illustrations.