Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Corrugated jar found in the corner of a room in the oldest section of the San Pedro Viejo ruin. Note the soUd adobe floor on level with the top of the vessel but dug away except at the rear most likely to have been the chief center of Pueblo culture as we now know it, and because there were to be found there numerous ruins which according to Bandelier, belonged to the immediate ancestors of the living people. The studies of the living races were to in- clude not only the sedentary natives of the Rio Grande Valley, but also the less sedentary people of the same area, in particular the various groups of Apache and the Navajo. It was contemplated that when the historical problem in this particular area had been brought to a fair completion, the work would be extended westward into Arizona so as gradually to unravel the historical puzzle of the Southwest. While this was a very ambitious undertaking, the reports of our several field parties ^ show that » Schedule of Field-Work, 1909-1915: 1909 — Dr. P. E. Goddard first began work among the Apache of Arizona and New Mexico and Dr. H.J. Spinden began his investigation of the Rio Grande Pueblo peoples. Dr. Clark Wissler spent a considerable part of tliis year and 1910 in a general survey of the field to the end that more systematic detailed plans might be developed. 1910 — Dr. Goddard continued work among the Apache tribes and the Navajo and Dr. Spinden continued the investigation of the Rio Grande pueblos. Miss M. L. Kissell made a special investigation of the textile arts among the Papago and Pima tribes.

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