# The Priest-Chief's Daughter — Zuni Folktales character guide

> The Priest-Chief's Daughter in Zuni Folktales by Frank Hamilton Cushing.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the priest-chief's daughter

**First appearance:** 0001-zuni-folktales

## Snapshot

The beautiful maiden of Mátsaki, whose grace draws suitors from every pueblo and whose father's wealth makes her the prize of Salt City.

## Who they are

The Priest-Chief's Daughter moves through her father's great house with the ease of one accustomed to turquoise-covered portholes and endless stores of buckskin. She serves wafer bread to visiting strangers and sweeps away crumbs with practiced grace, yet her own desires remain veiled behind the customs that govern her. Her beauty and her father's standing make her the center of a contest that will reveal which suitor possesses not only fine presents but true worth.

## In the story

### [The Tale](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/zuni_folktales_se/chapters/the-tale)

The maiden with a passion for cleanliness who defiles the sacred spring, takes in the serpent child, and is ultimately sacrificed to Kólowissi.

### [The Maiden the Sun Made Love To, and Her Boys](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/zuni_folktales_se/chapters/the-maiden-the-sun-made-love-to-and-her-boys)

The secluded maiden who never leaves her house; she is loved by the Sun and later killed during the Óinahe dance.

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