Antiquities of Jemez Plateau, New Mexico: By Edgar L. Hewett

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - Počet stran: 55

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Strana 52 - States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be...
Strana 52 - Provided, That when such objects are situated upon a tract covered by a bona fide unperfected claim or held in private ownership, the tract, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the proper care and management of the object, may be relinquished to the Government, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to accept the relinquishment of such tracts in behalf of the Government of the United States.
Strana 52 - Provided, That the examinations, excavations, and gatherings are undertaken •for the benefit of reputable museums, universities, colleges, or other recognized scientific or educational institutions, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such objects, and that the gatherings shall be made for permanent preservation in public museums.
Strana 52 - That any person who shall appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy any historic or prehistoric ruin or monument, or any object of antiquity...
Strana 52 - That permits for the examination of ruins, the excavation of archaeological sites, and the gathering of objects of antiquity...
Strana 52 - SEC. 2. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments...
Strana 41 - ... their stone walls but little. I found no remains of bones of animals or men about them. This town I called Cristone. The same hog-back recommences a little more than a mile to the north, rising to a greater elevation, say 600 or 700 feet above the valley.
Strana 16 - Upon the highest point of this ridge is located a large pueblo ruin which formed the nucleus of the Otowi settlement. In every direction are clusters of excavated cliff-dwellings of contemporaneous occupation and on a parallel ridge to the south are the ruins of one pueblo of considerable size and of seven small ones, all antedating the main Otowi settlement.
Strana 16 - ... two small canyons and the formerly intervening mesa. From the midst of this little park, roughly a mile square, a view of surpassing beauty is to be had. Half a mile to the south the huge mesa which is terminated by Rincon del Pueblo bounds the valley with a high unbroken line, perhaps five hundred feet above the dry arroyo at the bottom. The same distance to the north is the equally high and abrupt Ot-o-wi mesa, and east and west, an equal distance and to about an equal height, rise the wedge-like...
Strana 14 - Tewa of the pre-Spanish period. This particular pueblo was well situated for agriculture, there being a considerable acreage of tillable land near by — far more than this small population would have utilized. The old trail across the neck of the mesa to the north is worn hip-deep in the rock, showing constant, long-continued use.

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