The House of the Cylinder Jars: Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. Patricia L Crown, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020, 240 pp. $95.00, cloth. ISBN 978-0-8263-6177-6.

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-590
Author(s):  
Wesley Bernardini
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
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and speculations on the place of this figure in the prehistoric pantheon, brought forth a series of items of hitherto unpublished and illuminating data.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.

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