Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1930-1931, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1933.
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Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1930-1931, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1933.
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The excavations yielded 400 specimens of the people’s handicraft in
addition to the information on house types. Included in the collection
are pottery vessels, tools or implements of stone and bone, ornaments,
and a number of stone images. The pottery is characterized by examples
typical of the Chaco Canyon wares and also specimens characteristic
of the Upper Gila region to the south. The summer’s investigations
demonstrate that the village on the Zuñi reservation belongs to the
great period of the prehistoric pueblos; that designated as Pueblo III
in southwestern chronology. The evidence obtained also indicates that
there was a fusion of two groups of people at this location: One, the
first to arrive, came from the Chaco area in the north, and the other
from the Upper Gila villages in the south. Charred timbers obtained
from the ruins enabled Dr. A. E. Douglas, of the University of Arizona,
to give the dates 1000 to 1030 A. D. for the life of the community.
Upon the completion of the above work one week was spent in making an
archeological survey on the Zuñi reservation and in the region west
and northwest from that district. As a result of the reconnaissance, a
promising site for further investigations was found. Following this,
a trip was made to Cortez, Colo., for the purpose of inspecting ruins
being excavated by Lee Dawson near the opening into McElmo Canyon,
4 miles southwest from Cortez. It was found that Mr. Dawson had an
unusually interesting group of unit-type houses on his property. Of
particular interest were the kivas or ceremonial chambers associated
with these structures. In many of them the walls had been ornamented
with a series of paintings placed in bands encircling the walls. From
Cortez the writer went to Denver and from there returned to Washington
the middle of October.
During the winter months, galley, page, and final proofs were read on
Bulletin 100, a report on work conducted during the summer of 1929,
entitled “The Ruins of Kiatuthlanna, Eastern Arizona.” In addition, the
specimens brought in from the summer field work were studied. Drawings
and photographs were made of them for use in a report on the work. Six
hundred pages of manuscript, entitled “The Village of the Great Kivas
on the Zuñi Reservation, New Mexico,” was prepared. Thirty text figures
were drawn to accompany this manuscript.
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