- 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