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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Bulletin 87 CULTURE OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF THE UPPER GILA RIVER REGION, NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA SECOND MUSEUM-GATES EXPEDITION WALTER HOUGH Curator, Division of Ethnology, Utiited States National .^fuseum WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFEIC£ I91« SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM Bulletin 87 CULTURE OF THE ANCIENT PUEBLOS OF THE UPPER GILA RIVER REGION, NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA SECOND MUSEUM-GATES EXPEDITION WALTER HOUGH Curator, Division of Ethnology, United States National Museum WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 BULLETIN OF THE "UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. Issued March 21, 1914. II ADVERTISEMENT. The scientific publications of the United States National Museum consist of two series—the Proceedings and the Bulletins. The scientific publications of the United States National Museum are intended primarily as a medium for the publication of original, and usually brief, papers based on the collections of the National Museum, presenting newly acquired facts in zoology, geology, and anthropol- ogy, including descriptions of new forms of animals, and revisions of limited groups. One or two volumes are issued annually and dis- tributed to libraries and scientific organizations. A limited number of copies of each paper, in pamphlet form, is distributed to specialists and others interested in the different subjects as soon as printed. The date of publication is printed on each paper, and these dates are also recorded in the tables of contents of the volumes. The Bulletins., the first of which was issued in 1875, consist of a series of separate publications comprising chiefly monographs of large zoological groups and other general systematic treatises (occa- sionally in several volumes), faunal work, reports of expeditions, and catalogues of type-specimens, special collections, etc. The majority of the volumes are octavos, but a quarto size has been adopted in a few instances in which large plates were regarded as indispensable. Since 1902 a series of octavo volumes containing papers relating to the botanical collections of the Museum, and known as the Con- tributions from the National Tlerhar'mm^ has been published as bulletins. The present work forms No. 87 of the Bulletin series. Richard Rathbun, Assistant Secretary., Smithsonian Institution, In charge of the United States National Museum. Washingtox, D. C, February 13, 1914. Ill TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 Itinerary 2 Tularosa Cave 2 Natural history 4 Mammals 4 Birds 5 Other animals 7 Com 7 Cotton 9 Gourds and squashes 9 Beans 10 Fruits 10 Roots 10 Nuts 11 Parts of wild plants 11 Stone, bone, shell, and metal 11 Materials and general remarks 11 Domestic utensils of stone 13 Mortars and pestles 15 Stone vessels 16 Smoothing stones 17 Pottery-working stones 18 Arrowheads, throwsticks, and darts 19 Axes, hammers, and mauls 20 Clubheads, balls 21 Knife 21 Scrapers 22 Saws 22 Drills 23 Beads and ornaments 24 Process of bead making 26 Crystals and reflectors 30 Ceremonial mortars and tablets 30 Plaques 31 Sculptures 32 Pictographs 33 Paint stones 33 Salt 33 Bone 33 Shell 37 Metal work 37 Pottery 38 Coiled ware of the Blue River region 38 Brown ware of the Blue River region 40 Gray ware of the Blue River region 41 Gray ware of Spur Ranch 42 Gray ware of the Tularosa Valley 42 Gray ware of Apache Creek 43 V VI CONTENTS. Pottery—Continued. Page. Red "w^are of Blue River 43 Red ware of Apache Creek 44 Red ware of Tularosa River ; 44 Pottery of Upper Mimbres 45 Pottery of Bear Creek Cave 45 Pottery of Tularosa Cave 45 Pottery designs 46 Wliite Line designs, Blue River 56 Wood 58 Arrow making 63 Fire-making implements 66 Textiles 66 Knots in yucca strips 67 Cord 68 Cord making series and products 69 Weaving tools.'. 73 Braiding 75 Woven textiles 76 Dyes on cords 83 Sandals 83 Hair 86 Leather work 86 Basketry 87 Twined work 87 Wrapped work 87 Tied work 87 Twilled work 88 Diaper work 89 Coiled work 89 Religious objects 90 Deposit of offerings in caves 90 Psychology of the paho 91 Twig pahos 91 Stub pahos 92 Crook pahos 93 Roundel pahos 96 Bow pahos 97 Birds in religious observances 101 Bird circuit symbolism 103 Fire pahos 106 Ceremonial cigarettes 107 Firesticks and torch offerings 110 Cloud blowers Ill Costume pahos 114 Pottery figurines 115 Spring pahos 117 Mountain pahos 118 Basketry pahos 123 Designs on painted basket pahos 124 Flute pahos 125 Game pahos 127 Miscellaneous pahos 128 Ornamentation of offerings 130 Mortuarj- 132 Index 135 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. TLATHS. Facing page. 1. Desiccated turkey from Tularosa Cave 5 2. Corn ears, cobs and stems of ears that have been strung 8 3. Stone implements for grinding and abrading 13 4. Stone implements for cutting and pounding 20 5. Coiled and paste-ornamented pottery 40 6. Coiled and paste-ornamented pottery 40 7. Pottery vessels from Spur Ranch 40 8. Gray ware from Blue River and Apache Creek 42 9. Gray ware from Spur Ranch 42 10. Red ware from Blue River 44 11. Pottery vases and bowls from Fort Bayard, New Mexico 45 12. Bent wood rings and wooden hook 59 13. Digging sticks and fire-sharpened wooden implements 62 14. Worked wood and bark and basketry manikin 63 15. Fire-making apparatus and slow wood 66 16. Twilled basketr>' 89 17. Twilled and coiled basketry 90 18. Stub pahos from Bear Creek Cave 92 19. Crook pahos from Bear Creek and Johnson Caves 95 20. Roundel pahos from Bear Creek Cave 96 21. Painted bird offering from Bear Creek Cave 105 22. Painted wooden strips from Bear Creek Cave 106 23. Costume pahos from Bear Creek Cave 114 24. Coiled painted basket pahos from Bear Creek Cave 123 25. Game pahos and game set 128 26. Painted wood and pith offerings 129 27. Desiccated body of an infant buried in Tularosa Cave 132 28. Objects accompanying infant burial 132 29. Desiccated body of an infant 133 FIGURES. Page. 1. Hair brush from Tularosa Cave 3 2. Pottery fire vessel from Tularosa Cave 3 3. Trade bundle of parrot feathers from Tularosa Cave 6 4. Jaybird plume from Tularosa Cave 7 5. Gourd seed vessel from Tularosa Cave 10 6. Brush of yucca from Tularosa Cave 11 7. Metate set on a foundation from Blue 14 8. Grinding stones from Blue 15 9. Stone mortar from Spur Ranch 15 10. Pestle from Spur Ranch 15 11. Carved stone vessel from Solomonsville 16 VII Vni ILLUSTEATIONS. Page. 12. Small stone vessel from Spur Ranch 16 13. Small stone vessel from Spur Ranch 16 14. Stone vessel from upper San Francisco River 17 15. Polishing stone from Apache Creek 17 16. Smoothing stone from Spur Ranch 17 17. Stone rasp from Tularosa Cave 17 18. Arrow-smoothing stone from Spur Ranch 18 19. Smoothing stone from Spur Ranch .• 18 20. Smoothing stone from lower San Francisco River 18 21. Throwstick, darts, knives, and punch from near Lava, New Mexico 19 22. Stone ax from Spur Ranch 20 23. Stone grooved maul from Spur Ranch 20 24. Stone ball from Spur Ranch 21 25. Stone ball from Spur Ranch 21 26. Stone ball from Spur Ranch 21 27. Stone hammer from Spur Ranch 21 28. Stone scraper from Tularosa Cave 22 29. Stone scraper from Spur Ranch 22 30. Stone saw from Joseph, Tularosa River 23 31. Stone saw from Luna, New Mexico 23 32. Stone saw from Apache Creek 23 33. Stone saw from Blue River 23 34. Chalcedony drill from Spur Ranch 24 35. Chalcedony drill from Spur Ranch 24 36. Chalcedony drill from Spur Ranch 24 37. Chert drill from Spur Ranch 25 38. Chert drill from Spur Ranch 25 39. Hematite cylinder perforated from Tularosa River 27 40. Hematite cylinder perforated from Tularosa River 27 41. Perforated cylinders from Tularosa River 27 42. Conoid fetish from Tularosa River 27 43. Carvings in stone and shell from Spur Ranch 28 44. Sandstone disk partly perforated from Tularosa Cave 29 45. Scored spindle-shape stone from Blue 29 46. Lava block with scorings from Blue 30 47. Carved pottery ornament from Spur Ranch 30 48. Chalcedony mirror from Spur Ranch 30 49. Ceremonial painted mortar from Blue 31 50. Ceremonial painted mortar from Spur Ranch 31 51. Painted stone slab from Spur Ranch 31 52. Stone tablet from Spur Ranch 32 53. Sculptured slab from San Francisco River 32 54. Sculpture in form of animal, San Francisco River 32 55. Sculpture in form of animal, San Francisco River 32 56. Sculptured animal head, East Camp, New ^lexico 33 57. Bone awl from Spur Eanch 34 58. Bone awl from Spur Ranch 34 59. Bone awl from Spur Ranch 34 60. Bone awl with spatulate end from Spur Ranch 34 61. Bone awl from Tularosa Cave 34 62. Short bone awl from Spur Ranch 34 63. Bone implement, terraced, from upper San Francisco River 35 64. Bone implement from Spur Ranch 35 . ILLUSTRATIONS. IX Page. 65. Antler spike from Tularosa Cave 35 66. Antler spike with chisel point from Spur Ilanch 35 67. Bird bone awl from Luna, New Mexico 35 G8. Bone awl from Tularosa Cave 35 G9. Leather-working tool of bone from Spur Ranch 36 70. Leather-working tool of bone from Tularosa Cave 30 71. Antler spike with chisel point from Luna, New Mexico 36 72. Deer rib knife from Luna, New Mexico 36 73. Antler punch from Tularosa Cave 36 74. Leather working tool of bone from Spur Ranch 36 75. Bunt head of bone for throwstick darts from Luna, New Mexico 36 76. Bunt heads of bone for throwstick darts from Luna, New Mexico 36 77.