HOPI INDIAN ARIZONA POTTERY FOOD BOWLS & FIGURES SIKYATKI 1897 PRINT

HOPI INDIAN ARIZONA POTTERY FOOD BOWLS & FIGURES SIKYATKI 1897 PRINT (image 1/[null, null])
HOPI INDIAN ARIZONA POTTERY FOOD BOWLS & FIGURES SIKYATKI 1897 PRINT (image 2/[null, null])
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PL CXXXII HOPI INDIAN POTTERY FOOD BOWLS & FIGURES FROM SIKYATKI ARIZONA 1897118 year old original print from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, Washington Government Printing Office 1897 Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 By J. Walter Fewkes.Each Print is stamp embossed with " Western Reserve Cleveland Historical Society" see photos.Size of sheet: 11.5” X 7.5”." EXCAVATED ROOM IN THE WESTERN MOUND OF AWATOBIAbout an eighth of a mile west of the great mounds of Awatobi there is a small rectangular ruin, the ground plan of which is well marked, and in which individual houses are easy to trace. Like its larger neighbor, it stands on the very edge of the mesa. None of its walls rise above the surface of the mounds, which, however, are considerably elevated and readily distinguished for some distance. The pueblo was built in the form of a rectangle of single-story houses surrounding a plaza. There was an opening or entrance on the southern side, near which is a mound, possibly the remains of a kiva. A trail now passes directly through the ruin and down the mesa side to Jeditoh valley, probably the pathway by which the ancient inhabitants ascended the cliff. The Hopi Indians employed by me in excavating Awatobi had no name for this ruin and were not familiar read more
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