Preliminary report on a visit to the Navaho National Monument, Arizona — John Shaqi
Preliminary report on a visit to the Navaho National Monument, ArizonaFewkes, Jesse Walter
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Preliminary report on a visit to the Navaho National Monument, Arizona
Fewkes, Jesse Walter
Arizona -- Antiquities; Cliff-dwellings -- Arizona; Navajo National Monument (Ariz.)
[36] Trickling-spring House is not located on the accompanying map and,
so far as could be ascertained, had not been visited by archeologists
previously to the writer’s visit. A young Navaho guided the writer to
it a short time before he left the region.
[37] Of course some of the rooms in Cliff Palace, especially those at
the western extension of the northern end, are dependent, the cliff
forming their rear walls.
[38] Both kinds of circular kivas are found in the cliff-ruins at Casa
Blanca and in Mummy cave in the Canyon de Chelly.
[39] These rites in all the Hopi pueblos are performed, as in ancient
times, in rectangular rooms not called kivas. The Snake rites are
performed now, as when the clan lived at Tokónabi in subterranean rooms
(kivas), the present form of which is rectangular instead of circular,
as at Tokónabi.
[40] It appears that in some of the ruins of the Navaho National
Monument there were both circular subterranean kivas and rectangular
rooms used for ceremonial purposes. At Wukóki the former do not
exist, but two of the latter can be recognized, one of which has a
construction like a ventilator.
[41] None of the five Walpi kivas is older than 1680, and one or two
are of later construction.
[42] Haus und Dorf bei den Eingeborenen Nordamerikas, in _Arch. für
Anthr._, N. F., Bd. VII, Heft 2 and 3, 1908.
[43] The circular kivas of Kükütcomo, the twin ruins on the mesa above
Sikyatki, near Walpi, are the only ceremonial rooms of this form known
from the Hopi mesas. These were the work of the Coyote clan and are of
Eastern origin.
[44] There are two types of cavate ruins, or rooms artificially
excavated in the tops or faces of cliffs, near Flagstaff. In one type,
Old Caves, the entrance to the subterranean rooms is vertical; in the
other, New Caves, it is from the side. In one type the walls of masonry
are built above the caves; in the other in front of them. The common
feature is the existence of chambers artificially excavated in the
cliff. Both types differ essentially from pueblos built in the open
or in natural caverns, although some of the kivas of the latter are
excavated in the solid rock.
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