The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona: Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198Mindeleff, Cosmos
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The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona: Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198
Mindeleff, Cosmos
Arizona -- Antiquities; Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.); Cliff-dwellings -- Arizona; Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities
The cliff outlooks in Canyon de Chelly and in other regions, the cavate
lodges of New Mexico and Arizona, the "watch towers" of the San Juan and
of the Zuni country, the summer villages attached to many of the
pueblos, the single-room remains found everywhere, even the brush
shelters or "kisis" of Tusayan, are all functionally analogous, and all
are the outgrowth of certain industrial requirements, which were
essentially the same throughout the pueblo country, but whose product
was modified by geological and topographical conditions. In the cliff
ruins of De Chelly we have an interesting and most instructive example
of the influence of a peculiar and sometimes adverse environment on a
primitive people, who entered the region with preconceived and, as it
were, fully developed ideas of house construction, and who left it
before those ideas were brought fully in accord with the environment,
but not before they were influenced by it.
INDEX
[Transcriber's Note:
The term "Cliff dwellings" does not occur as an Index entry. The
cross-references are probably an error for "Cliff ruins."]
Access to cliff Villages 144, 157, 158
Acoma, structural development of 155
Adobe blocks not aboriginal 108
-- construction in pueblo region 163
-- walls in Casa Blanca 108, 109, 111
Age of ruin determined by plastering 121
Agriculture of the Navaho 87
Architecture of cliff ruins 153
--, pueblo, character of 193
--, pueblo, development of 91, 193
Arizona, cliff ruins of Canyon de Chelly 73-198
--, _see_ Cliff dwellings.
Army of the West, conquest by 79
Aztecs, cliff ruins attributed to 191
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