- Antelope Mesa ruins, pottery from, 35
- Antiquities—
- major—
- ceremonial room other than kiva, 24
- circular rooms other than kivas, 23
- construction of walls, 9-10
- kivas, 17-23
- ledge-houses, 24-25
- mortuary room, 24
- plazas and courts, 8-9
- refuse-heaps, 25
- secular rooms, 10-17
- stairways, 25
- minor—
- absence of objects showing European culture, 51
- basketry, 42
- bone implements, 48-49
- corn, beans, and squash seeds, 50
- fabrics, 44-47
- fetish, 49
- general discussion, 25-28
- hoop-and-pole game, 50-51
- leather and skin objects, 51
- lignite gorget, 49-50
- pictographs, 51-53
- pottery, 28-38
- stone implements, 38-42
- summary, 53
- wooden objects, 42-44
- Arch unknown to cliff-dwellers, 4
- Awatobi, pottery from, 35, 36
- Axes, stone, description of, 26, 38-40
- Balconies, description of, 15
- Balcony House, features of, 15
- Basketry, description of, 42, 53
- baskets found in Spruce-tree House, 6, 26
- “Bean planting,” a Hopi festival, 10
- Birdsall, Dr. W. R., cited on cliff-dwellings of Mesa Verde, 3
- Black-and-white pottery, where found, 36
- Bone implements, description of, 48-49, 53
- Burials, description of, 6, 7, 24, 26
- Canyon Largo ruins, pottery from, 37
- Casa Grande—
- a ceramic area, 35
- feature of ruins, 20
- Casas Grandes, pottery from, 35, 53
- Ceremonial room, description of, 24
- See also Kivas.
- Chaco canyon—
- ancient inhabitants, 20
- in San Juan ceramic area, 34, 35, 36
- pottery, 37
- ruins, 15
- Chapin, F. H., cited on cliff-dwellings, 3
- Chelly canyon—
- ancient inhabitants, 20
- cliff-dwellings, 21
- in San Juan ceramic area, 34, 35, 36, 37
- pottery, 28, 36
- Chevlon, pottery from, 36-37
- Chimneys, absence of, 16
- Circular rooms, description of, 23
- See also Kivas.
- Cliff Palace, discovery of, 2-3
- Cloth objects. See Fabrics.
- Coal not used by ancient inhabitants, 16
- Collections from Spruce-tree House, 25-28
- Corn, Indian, chief food of ancient inhabitants, 50
- Courts. See Plazas and courts.
- Culin, Stewart, on hoop-and-pole game, 51
- Culture of ancient inhabitants, 53-54
- Dimensions of Spruce-tree House, 7
- Discovery of Spruce-tree House, 2-3
- Doors, description of, 5, 6, 17
- Doorways, description of, 4-5, 14
- Dubois, Coert, on cliff-dwellings on Mesa Verde, 8
- Estufas, description of, 4, 6
- See also Kivas.
- European influence, absence of, 51
- Fabrics, description of, 44-47, 53
- Fetish, description of, 49
- Fewkes, Dr. J. Walter, cited by Nordenskiöld, on ledge-houses, 6-7
- Fireplaces—
- in kivas, 18, 21-23
- in secular rooms, 16, 23
- Floors, description of, 17, 18
- Four as a symbolic number, 23
- Gila ceramic area, pottery of, 34, 37, 38
- Gill, Mrs. M. W., work of, 29
- Gorget, lignite, description of, 49-50
- “Great Houses,” in southern ceramic area, 34
- Grinding stones, description of, 40-41
- Hand stones, description of, 40-41
- Hano, pottery from, 31, 33
- History of Spruce-tree House, 2
- Holmes, Prof. W. H.—
- cited on pottery from Pueblo area, 36
- explorations of, 2
- Homolobi, pottery from, 36-37
- Hoop-and-pole game, note on, 50-51
- Hopi—
- butterfly and raincloud symbols, 52
- kivas, 18, 20, 22
- name Moki applied to, 2
- old houses, 17
- pottery, 31, 37, 38
- stone objects, 40
- See also Sikyatki, pottery from.
- Hopi ceramic area, 35-36, 37
- Hough, Dr. Walter, on pit-houses, 20
- Hungo Pavie, estufa at, 15
- Inhabitants (ancient) of Mesa Verde—
- arts, 42, 43
- coal not used by, 16
- cookery, 16
- early accounts of, 2
- ethnic position, 15, 28
- general culture, 31, 53-54
- population of Spruce-tree House, 7
- significance of kiva structure, 20
- Jackson ruin, location of, 2
- Jackson, W. H., explorations of, 2
- Kidder, A. V., acknowledgment to, 29
- Kivas—
- correlation with black-and-white ware, 31
- general description, 9, 17-23
- location, 7-8
- proportion of, 14, 21
- subterranean character, 11, 20
- walls, 10, 52
- Language of ancient people of Mesa Verde, 53-54
- Leather and skin objects, notes on, 51
- Ledge-houses, description of, 6-7, 24-25
- Little Colorado valley—
- a ceramic area, 34, 35, 36-37
- pottery from, 31, 34, 38
- Maize, chief food of ancient inhabitants, 50
- Mancos canyon, ruins in, 2
- Mason, Charley, discoveries of, 3
- Metal, no traces of, 51
- Metates, description of, 41
- Mishongnovi, pottery from, 35
- Moki, meaning of term, 2
- Montezuma valley ruins, pottery from, 37
- Morley, S. G., survey by, 7
- Mortuary custom, 28
- Mortuary room, description of, 24
- Navaho, and early Spanish travelers, 2
- Nordenskiöld, Baron Gustav—
- objects figured by, 41, 42, 43
- on ancient painting, 52
- on balconies and terraced rooms, 15
- on discovery of Cliff Palace and Spruce-tree House, 2-3
- on Mesa Verde pottery, 28, 29
- on “moccasin lasts”, 41
- on number of rooms in Spruce-tree House, 7
- on objects from Spruce-tree House, 26
- Spruce-tree House described by, 3-7
- work of, 3
- Nussbaum, J., acknowledgment to, 1
- Obsidian objects absent from Spruce-tree House, 27
- Owakulti, a Hopi basket dance, 51
- Patki clan (Hopi), coming of, 35
- Pestles. See Grinding stones.
- Pictographs, description of, 51-53
- Piros ceramics not classified, 35
- Pit-houses, features of, 20
- Plan of ruin, 4, 7-8, 9
- Plazas and courts, description of, 8-9
- Population, aboriginal, 7
- Pottery—
- ceramic areas, 34-38
- decoration, 32-34
- forms, 29-30
- general account of, 6, 28
- structure, 30-32
- summary, 53
- See also specific names, as San Juan valley, Sikyatki, Zuñi.
- Pounding stones, description of, 41
- Powamû festival, incident of, 10
- Prudden, Dr. T. Mitchell, on ruins of San Juan valley, 8
- Pueblo Chettro Kettle, balcony in, 15
- Pueblos, ancient location of, 20
- Refuse-heaps, description of, 25, 27
- Retzius, Prof. G., cited by Nordenskiöld, on skull from Spruce-tree House, 24
- Rio Grande ruins—
- in San Juan ceramic area, 36
- pottery from, 33
- Roofs—
- general description, 15, 17
- of kivas, 18, 19, 21-23
- Rooms—
- described by Nordenskiöld, 4-7
- statistics, 7
- See also Kivas, Secular rooms.
- Salt River ruins, pottery from, 38
- San Juan valley—
- a ceramic area, 34, 35, 36, 37-38
- pottery from, 34, 36
- type of ruins in, 8
- Secular rooms, description of, 10-15
- balconies, 15
- decorations on walls, 52
- doors and windows, 16
- fireplaces, 16
- floors and roofs, 17
- Shell objects, rarity of, 27, 28, 53
- Shumopavi, pottery from, 35, 36
- Sikyatki, pottery from—
- decoration, 33
- general character, 53
- in Hopi ceramic area, 35, 36
- lips of food bowls, 29
- Sipapû, description of, 14, 18
- Site of Spruce-tree House, 1, 7
- Spanish travelers, in Mesa Verde region, 2
- Spruce-tree canyon, description of, 1
- Stairways, description of, 25
- Step House, pottery from, 28
- Stone objects, description of, 26, 27
- axes, 38-40
- cylinder of hematite, 41-42
- grinding stones, 40-41
- pounding stones, 41
- Tanoan families (Hopi), coming of, 35
- Tcamahias, description of, 39-40
- Terraced form of buildings, 15
- Tiponi, sacred object of Hopi, 40
- Turkeys, traces of, in Spruce-tree House, 4, 7
- Turquoise objects, absence of, 27
- “Tusayan” pottery, character of, 36, 37
- Unit type of ruin—
- development of, 12
- explanation of term, 8
- Ute, in relation to Mesa Verde cliff-dwellings, 2
- Ventilation—
- by openings in walls, 9
- in kivas, 11, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23
- of rooms, 16
- Walls, description of, 4, 5-6, 9-10
- Walls of circular room other than kiva, 23
- of kivas, 18, 19-20, 21-23
- terraced, 15
- Wetherills, the, discoveries of, 2-3, 6
- Windows, description of, 16
- Wooden objects—
- general description, 26, 53
- miscellaneous, 44
- planting slicks, 44
- slabs, 43
- spindles, 43-44
- sticks tied together, 42-43
- Zuñi pottery—
- belonging to Little Colorado ceramic area, 35, 36, 38
- decoration, 33
- description of, 31-32, 37
About This Book
The report presents a detailed archaeological account of a large cliff-dwelling in Mesa Verde canyon, describing its geological setting, recent discovery and excavation, architectural layout including plazas, rooms, balconies, stairways, and multiple kivas, and construction techniques such as masonry and roofing. It catalogs artifacts recovered—pottery forms and decoration, stone tools and axes, basketry, wooden objects, textiles, bone implements, seeds, and ritual items—offers typological and regional comparisons, documents pictographs and mortuary contexts, and discusses site formation, refuse deposits, conservation measures, and interpretive conclusions about past occupation and material culture.