[19] Of these, the Pueblo of Zuñi has been celebrated for honesty and hospitality. The inhabitants mostly profess the Catholic faith, but have now no curate. They cultivate the soil, manufacture, and possess considerable quantities of stock. Their village is over 150 miles west of the Rio del Norte, on the waters of the Colorado of the West, and is believed to contain between 1,000 and 1,500 souls. The "seven Pueblos of Moqui" (as they are called) are a similar tribe living a few leagues beyond. They formerly acknowledged the government and religion of the Spaniards, but have long since rejected both, and live in a state of independence and paganism. Their dwellings, however, like those of Zuñi, are similar to those of the interior Pueblos, and they are equally industrious and agricultural, and still more ingenious in their manufacturing. The language of the _Moquis_ or _Moquinos_ is said to differ but little from that of the Navajoes.--GREGG.
_Comment by Ed._ For the Moki (properly Hopi), see Pattie's _Narrative_, in our volume xviii, p. 130, note 64. The articles by Frank H. Cushing in American Bureau of Ethnology _Reports_ first directed attention to the Zuñi; consult also Bandelier, "Outline of Documentary History of Zuñi Tribe," in _Journal of American Ethnology and Archæology_ (Boston, 1891-94), iii.
[20] On the linguistic stocks of the pueblos, consult our volume xix, p. 266, note 90 (Gregg).--ED.
[21] Bandelier, "Final Report," Archæological Institute of America _Papers_, American Series, iii, pp. 121-136, considers the pueblo population at the time of the Spanish conquest to have been about twenty-five thousand. The present population of New Mexican pueblos, exclusive of the Moki, is about nine thousand.--ED.
[22] The pueblo of Pecos was situated thirty miles southeast of Santa Fé, and at the close of the seventeenth century had a population of two thousand, being the largest pueblo in either New Mexico or Arizona. It was visited as early as 1540 by Alvarado, a lieutenant of Coronado. In 1598, the inhabitants rendered submission to Oñate, and a mission was established among them for which a large church was built in the seventeenth century, its ruins being still conspicuous. In the revolt of 1680 the Pecos remained neutral; but soon thereafter decline in numbers set in, and by 1837 but eighteen adults were left. A fever swept away the majority of these, when in 1840 the remnant of five men sold their lands to the government, and retired to their kinsmen at Jemez. A son of the tribe was found in 1880 among the Mexicans of the village of Pecos, a small, comparatively modern town. Bandelier discredits the Montezuma myth, which he considers a Spanish-Mexican importation. See Archæological Institute of America _Papers_, American Series, i, pp. 110-125. He found among the ruins, however, evidences of the existence of the sacred fire.--ED.
