The Pueblo Bonito Mounds of Chaco Canyon: Material Culture and Fauna. PATRICIA L. CROWN, editor. 2016. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. xiv + 274 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8263-5650-5.

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 768-769
Author(s):  
Susan C. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
University Of New Mexico

Corn Goddesses or Phalli?

1944 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ripley P. Bullen
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
Small Unit ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
The University

While attending the 1941 summer field session of the University of New Mexico at Chaco Canyon, the author hired four Navahos and partially excavated a small pueblo site on the talus about one-third of a mile up the valley from Chetro Ketl and on the same side of the wash. A small unit of at least four rooms and two kivas of middle Pueblo III time was indicated.Standing upright on the bottom of the ventilator opening in one of the kivas was found a sandstone phallus measuring 9J inches in height. It was oval in cross-section and measured 8X7 inches at the base. The bottom was irregular, but the rest had been carefully carved and smoothed to represent most realistically the end of a phallus when erect. The specimen is now at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Squash-Blossom Headdress in Basket Maker III

1940 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Hawley
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
La Plata ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
New Information ◽  
Human Figure ◽  
Field Season ◽  
Basket Maker ◽  
The University

Notations on the discovery of a figure of Kokopelli, the hunch-backed flute player, on a Pueblo I sherd in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, and speculations on the place of this figure in the prehistoric pantheon, brought forth a series of items of hitherto unpublished and illuminating data. It is hoped that this note on a second find of a human figure on a sherd in Chaco Canyon may likewise lead to some controversy and new information.This new figure, discovered during the 1937 field season of the University of New Mexico, was that of a woman with squash-blossom headdress, the old fertility symbol of the Hopi maidens. The potsherd was of La Plata Black-on-white, a typical Basket Maker III type, dating probably some time before 700 A.D. Similar figures with the squash-blossom headdress have been noted from time to time as petroglyphs on boulders or on cliff walls in the northern part of the Southwest; but the Chaco sherd provides the best opportunity that I know of for dating this interesting coiffure.

Archaeological Remains, Supposedly Navaho, from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

1939 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy L. Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Early History ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Chaco Canyon ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
History Of ◽  
Made In

Until recently there has been little attempt to trace the early history of the Navaho in the Southwest through their archaeological remains. While some investigators were studying Pueblo archaeology, they did record certain discoveries which tend to throw some light here and there on the earlier history of the Navaho. In the summer of 1937 a reconnaisance of archaeological sites, putatively Navaho, was made in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The sites were mainly on, or at the base of western Chacra Mesa, some eight miles east of Pueblo Bonito. Interesting information was gathered, particularly in regard to house types, pottery, burials, textiles, and certain other items of material culture which may be correlated with ethnological data on the Navaho.

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