A Pueblo Indian inhabiting the valley of the Zuñi, New Mexico. Hence Zuñian, Zunyan a.
1883. F. H. Cushing, in Century Mag., XXV. 201/2. He regarded bacon as vile, but Zūni food prepared in Zūni fashion as worthy of emphatic recommendation. Ibid., 202/1. The domestic life of the Zūnis.
1885. Science, 25 Sept., 267/2. This clay model of the Zuñian owl.
1898. A. Lang, Making Relig., xiv. 275. In the Zuñi hymn we have the myth of the marriage of Heaven and Earth.
