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Navaho Archaeology of Upper Blanco and Largo Canyons, Northern New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Malcolm F. Farmer
Malcolm F. Farmer*
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San Diego MuseumSan Diego, California
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Upper Blanco and Largo Canyons in Rio Arriba and Sandoval Counties, northern New Mexico (Fig. 5), are in an area known to modern Navaho Indians as dinetah, “Navaho country,” “Navaho homeland place,” and is recognized by them as the homeland of their ancestors. A number of Spanish records also refer to it as Navaho country. Anthropologists have, therefore, turned to the region as a source for data on the early Navahos. Surveys and some excavations of sites have been made.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , July 1942 , pp. 65 - 79
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1942

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References

1 Haile, 1938, p. 38. Bibliography, see pp. 99–104 of this Journal.

2 Harrington, 1940, p. 513.

3 See Kluckhohn and Spencer, 1940, pp. 5–10.

4 Among those who have worked in the area are A. V. Kidder in 1912, N. C. Nelson in 1916, E. H. Morris, Dr. H. P. Mera, W. S. Stallings, Jr., E. T. Hall, Jr., R. F. Van Valkenburgh, Dr. and Mrs. J. Y. Keur, R. L. Malcolm and F. C. Hibben. Bandelier records a number of earlier reports of the region.

5 R. F. Van Valkenburgh, survey in 1936 and 1937, with intermittent visits since that time.; Miss S. E. Murphey, survey and excavation in 1937; and C. T. R. Bohanan, survey in 1937.

6 This article is a summary of “Field and Laboratory Reports; Archaeological Work Done in the Old Navaho Country, Summer of 1938,” in manuscript. I wish to thank Mr. E. R. Fryer, Navajo Service, Window Rock, Arizona, for his interest and support of the project; Mr. R. F. Van Valkenburgh, Office of Indian Affairs, Field Service, Window Rock, Arizona; Dr. Clyde Kluckhohn, Harvard University; Dr. H. S. Colton, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona; Mr. and Mrs. James Counselor, Counselor's, New Mexico; Dr. A. O. Farmer; the Navahos who assisted, and many others who were more than helpful. Labor was furnished by CCC-ID.

7 Van Valkenburgh, 1941a, p. 123.

8 Keur, 1941, p. 63.

9 Van Valkenburgh, 1938a, pp. 153–157.

10 Matthews, 1902, p. 23, fig. 3. Franciscan Fathers, 1910, p. 367. Haile, 1938, p. 59.

11 Page, 19376, p. 47.

12 Keur, 1941, pp. 21–34, Tables B, C and D.

13 Wormington, 1940, and 1941.

14 Mindeleff, C, 1898, pp. 487–493.

15 Symbols as used in Keur, 1941.

16 Keur, 1941, pp. 36–37.

17 Bones identified by Dr. H. Howard, Los Angeles Museum, Los Angeles, California.

18 Van Valkenburgh, 1941a, p. 161.

19 Ibid., p. 44.

20 Notably Kidder, Nelson, Morris, Mera, Hibben, and Keur.

21 Reiter, 1938, Vol. II.

22 Kidder, 1920, p. 329.

23 Ugarte y Loyola, 1788.

24 Fewkes, 1919.

25 Hibben, 1937; 1938.

26 Mera, 1938.

27 Hibben, 1938.

28 Mindeleff, V., 1891, p. 168.

29 Anonymous, 1923, and 1925.

30 Malcolm, 1939, pp. 6–11.

31 Page, 19376, p. 48.

32 Page, 1937a.

33 Dates by H. T. Getty and E. T. Hall, Jr.

34 Keur, 1941, p. 68.

35 Stallings, 1937, p. 3.

36 Strong, 1935, p. 86.

37 Kidder, 1932, pp. 80–82, Fig. 56.

38 Table arranged according to classification scheme of Gifford and Schenck, 1926, pp. 80–81, and Strong, 1935, pp. 88–89. The numbers-in parentheses are the site numbers of the 1938 Survey where the points were found.

39 Keur, 1941, pp. 56–62.

40 Malcolm, 1939, p. 12.

41 Kidder, 1920, p. 325.

42 Keur, 1941, pp. 46–47.

43 Hill, 1937. “ Observed in use, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1935.

45 Mera, 1935, pp. 8–10.

46 Hibben, 1938, pp. 134–135.

47 Kidder and Shepard, 1936, p. 373; Keur, 1941, p. 47.

48 Keur, 1941, p. 48.

49 Tschopik, 1941, p. 70.

50 Ibid, p. 70.

51 Ibid, Pl. VIII.

52 Areas as outlined in Mera, 1939.

53 Reiter, 1938, pp. 123–153.

54 Kidder, 1931, pp. 131–150; Kidder and Shepard, 1936, pp. 374–380.

55 Author's field notes, 1938.

58 Mera, 1939.

57 Reiter, 1938.

58 Bloom and Mitchell, 1938, p. 107.

59 Hodge, 1916, p. 244.

60 Mera, 1938.

6l Hibben, 1938.

62 Jenness, 1940, p. 387.

63 Spier, 1928, pp. 180–182.

64 Steward, 1937a, p. 44.

65 Steward, 1940, pp. 472–474.

66 Jenness, 1940, p. 387.

67 Harrington, 1940, p. 523.

68 Mera, 1938.

69 Keur, 1941, pp. 55–56.

70 Steward, 1940, p. 470.

71 Keur, 1941, p. 1.

72 Jenness, 1940.