Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Sprucetree HouseU.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 - 57 pàgines |
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Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Sprucetree House, Edició 41 Jesse Walter Fewkes Visualització completa - 1909 |
Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Sprucetree House, Edicions 41-42 Jesse Walter Fewkes Visualització completa - 1909 |
Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Sprucetree House, Edicions 41-42 Jesse Walter Fewkes Visualització completa - 1909 |
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AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY ancient appear balconies basket beams built BULLETIN 41 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN cañon Casa Grande cave ceramic art ceremonial rooms Chaco Chaco canyon Chelly canyon circular kiva cliff Cliff Palace cliff-dwellings coiled ware colors constructed culture débris DECORATED FOOD-BOWLS dextral doorways dwellings edge estufas evidently excavations fiber fireplaces floor food bowls fragments front wall Gila holes Hopi ware House pottery inhabitants JESSE WALTER FEWKES kiva G later lignite Little Colorado Mancos meander Mesa Verde ruins metates objects old Hopi painted passageway pedestals plaza prehistoric pueblo rectangular refuse-heap repair resemblance rock roof room 26 rooms of Spruce-tree San Juan secular rooms side Sikyatki similar sinistral situated specimens Spruce Spruce-tree House sticks stone axes stone implements stone slab stories high subcultural area subterranean surface symbols talus terraced tree House Tusayan valley ventilator village volute walls of rooms Walpi west wall yucca Zuñi
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Pàgina 7 - House. But it is probable that this estimate should be reduced, as not all the 100 rooms were inhabited at the same time, there being evidence that several of them had occupants long after others were deserted. Approximately, Spruce-tree House had a population not far from 350 people, or about 100 more than that of Walpi, one of the best-known Hopi pueblos.
Pàgina 2 - Colorado, examined during the summers of 1875 and 1876, ibid., 1876, u. 383. wander about on the Mesa Verde. The care of these herds often calls for long rides on the mesa and in its labyrinth of canons. During these long excursions ruins, the one more magnificent than the other, have been discovered. The two largest were found by Richard Wetherill and Charley Mason one December day in 1888, as they were riding together through the pinon wood on the mesa, in search of a stray herd.
Pàgina 2 - Holmes secured a small collection of earthemvare vessels, generally fragmentary, and also a few objects of shells, bone, and wood, figures and descriptions of which accompany his report. Neither Jackson nor Holmes, however, saw the most magnificent ruins of the Mesa Verde. Had they followed up the side canyon of the Mancos they would have discovered, as stated by Nordenskiöld, " ruins so magnificent that they surpass anything of the kind known in the United States.
Pàgina 7 - Interior (published in the latter's report for 1907-8) from which he makes the following quotation: The total length of Spruce-tree House was found to be 216 feet, its width at the widest part 89 feet. There were counted in the Spruce-tree House 114 rooms, the majority of which were secular, and 8 ceremonial chambers or kivas.
Pàgina 7 - Nordenskiöld numbered 80 of the former and 7 of the latter, but in this count he apparently did not differentiate in the former those of the first, second and third stories. Spruce-tree House was in places 3 stories high ; the thirdstory rooms had no artificial roof, but the wall of the cave served that purpose. Several rooms, the walls of which are now two stories high, formerly had a third story above the second, but their walls...
Pàgina 13 - Cañón by a high outer wall in which no doorways were constructed to afford entrance to an enemy. Behind this outer wall the rooms descended in terraces towards the inner court. One side of this court was protected by a lower semicircular wall. In the details of the buildings we can find several features common to both. The roofs between the stories were constructed in the same way. The doorways were built of about the same dimensions. The rafters were often allowed to project beyond the outer wall...
Pàgina 3 - ... to this they gave the name of Sprucetree House, from a great spruce that jutted forth from the ruins. During the course of years Richard and Alfred Wetherill have explored the mesa and its canons in all directions ; they have thus gained a more thorough knowledge of its ruins than anyone.
Pàgina 7 - Several rooms, the walls of which are now two stories high, formerly had a third story 1 above the second, but their walls have now fallen, leaving as the only indication of their former union with the cave lines destitute of smoke on the top of the cavern. Of the 114 rooms, at least 14 were uninhabited, being used as storage and mortuary chambers. If we eliminate these from the total number of rooms we have 100 inclosures which might have been dwellings. Allowing 4 inhabitants for each of these...
Pàgina 7 - House, the trunk projecting from the wall of an estufa. In PI. x : 1 the tree is wanting. I had it cut down in order to ascertain its age. We counted the rings, which were very distinct, twice over, the results being respectively 167 and 169. I had supposed from the thickness of the tree that the number of the rings was much greater.