Archeological investigations in New Mexico, Colorado, and UtahFewkes, Jesse Walter
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Archeological investigations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah
Fewkes, Jesse Walter
Colorado -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Antiquities; New Mexico -- Antiquities; Utah -- Antiquities
[13] The Navaho are not a pottery making people, but often use bowls
and vases they find in prehistoric ruins.
[14] Although prehistoric, the author regards all the Chaco Canyon
group of ruins as later in construction than those of the Mesa Verde
and San Juan, with which they are morphologically connected.
[15] 4th Ann. Rep. of the Director of the Bur. Amer. Ethnol.; also 22d
Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., pp. 124, 125.
[16] This account is taken from a report of an Exploring Expedition
from Santa Fé, New Mexico, in 1859, under command of Capt. Macomb;
published in 1876 by the Engineers Department, U. S. A.
[17] Prehistoric Man in Utah. The Archæologist, Nov., 1894, pp. 335–342.
[18] We have in Hill Canyon ruins a good illustration of an all but
universal custom, among prehistoric people, of dual types of rooms,
one ceremonial, the other domiciliary, each constructed on different
architectural lines.
[19] 28th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 198, 199.
[20] A complete discussion of these prehistoric towers would lead to
a morphological comparison with the Chulpas of Peru, the Nauregs of
Sardinia, Irish and other similar religious structures.
[21] A more extended discussion of towers is reserved for a monograph,
now in preparation, on “Prehistoric Towers of the Southwest.” The
author has made several new observations on these structures some of
which differ considerably from those of his predecessors.
Morgan, “Houses and House Life of the American Aborigines” (Contr. to
Amer. Ethnol., Vol. IV), has pointed out, page 191, that the round
tower at the base of Ute Mountain must have been entered through
the roof, as no lateral doorways were visible, and Montgomery’s
observations on towers in Nine Mile Canyon point the same way.
These facts tell in favor of the theory that towers and kivas are
morphologically identical, as Morgan indicates. An absence of pilasters
on the inner walls of towers indicates that the roof was not vaulted,
as in most Mesa Verde cliff dwellings and in the pueblo, Far View
House, of the Mummy Lake group. Towers belong to what I have designated
the second type of kivas, or those with flat roofs, and are less
abundant in the San Juan area.
[22] _Op. cit._, also, The Circular Kiva of Small Ruins in the San Juan
Watershed. Amer. Anthr. Jan.–March, 1914.
[23] The intra-rectangular kivas of such pueblos as Zuñi are
comparatively modern, but their position is explained in a
very different way from that of the intra-mural circular kivas
characteristic of the ruins of the San Juan.
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