Museum Of New Mexico Research Articles

The Great Kivas of Chaco Canyon and Their Relationships. Gordon Vivian and Paul Reiter. Monographs of the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico, No. 22, Santa Fe, 1960. vi + 112 pp., 38 figs., 2 tables. $2.50.

The Great Kivas of Chaco Canyon and Their Relationships. Gordon Vivian and Paul Reiter. Monographs of the School of American Research and the Museum of New Mexico, No. 22, Santa Fe, 1960. vi + 112 pp., 38 figs., 2 tables. $2.50. - Volume 27 Issue 1

Additional Examples of an Unusual Peruvian Shirt Type

In “A New Type of Ancient Peruvian Shirt” (American Antiquity, 1955, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 263–73) A. H. Gayton described a late period Peruvian shirt (UNMF 15–93) from the Central Coast, collected by Edwin Ferdon of the Museum of New Mexico, especially notable for its horizontal neck opening. The more typical vertical opening has been thought to have been universal in pre- Conquest Peru. The shirt is composed of 3 long narrow webs folded vertically, seamed horizontally, with a horizontal neck slit and short sleevelike extensions closed at the ends but left open along the lower edges (Fig. 1). The 2 lower webs are of very open, almost square count, plain weave of 2-ply natural brown alpaca warps and wefts. The upper and longer one, which forms the shoulder and sleeve section, has the same open construction in natural brown alpaca for something less than half its width; the rest is warp faced in red and slate blue warp stripes.

A Trial Survey of Mexican-Southwestern Architectural Parallels. Edwin N. FerdonJr. , Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 21, School of American Research, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1955. 38 pp., 3 figs. $1.50.

A Trial Survey of Mexican-Southwestern Architectural Parallels. Edwin N. FerdonJr. , Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 21, School of American Research, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1955. 38 pp., 3 figs. $1.50. - Volume 22 Issue 3

The Midland Discovery. A Report on the Pleistocene Human Remains from Midland, Texas. Fred Wendorf, Alex D. Krieger, and Claude C. Albritton. Description of the Skull by T. D. Stewart. University of Texas Press, in cooperation with the Museum of New Mexico, Austin, 1955. viii+139 pp., 36 figs., 7 tables, 7 appendices. $3.50.

The Midland Discovery. A Report on the Pleistocene Human Remains from Midland, Texas. Fred Wendorf, Alex D. Krieger, and Claude C. Albritton. Description of the Skull by T. D. Stewart. University of Texas Press, in cooperation with the Museum of New Mexico, Austin, 1955. viii+139 pp., 36 figs., 7 tables, 7 appendices. $3.50. - Volume 22 Issue 2Part1

Highway Salvage Archaeology, Volume I. Edited by Fred Wendorf. New Mexico State Highway Department and Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1954. iii + 105 pp., 42 figs. [Editor's Note: This report has just been reprinted, and may be obtained for 50¢ (no stamps accepted) to cover cost of packing and mailing, from the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe,

Highway Salvage Archaeology, Volume I. Edited by Fred Wendorf. New Mexico State Highway Department and Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1954. iii + 105 pp., 42 figs. [Editor's Note: This report has just been reprinted, and may be obtained for 50¢ (no stamps accepted) to cover cost of packing and mailing, from the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, N.M.] - Volume 21 Issue 3

A New Type of Ancient Peruvian Shirt

The Shirt which is the subject of this article is of importance for several reasons: it exemplifies a revolutionary construction principle in old Peruvian dress, indicates that the new style was one still based on the weaver's art, and gives significance to textile fragments which heretofore have been anomalous.The specimen (Fig. 76) is the property of Edwin Ferdon of the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, who has kindly given permission for a descriptive and analytical article concerning it. In the spring of 1953 the writer examined the specimen, then on loan to the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. I wish to thank Frank Hibben, Curator of the Department's collections, for making this textile available for study, and Joseph Allen for photographing it. The shirt bears the loan number UNM F 15-93. My colleague, John Rowe, has kindly assisted with advice on the dating given herein.

Morleyana. Edited by A. J. O. Anderson. Museum of New Mexico and School of American Research, Santa Fe, 1950. xii + 268 pp. $10.00.

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Edgar Lee Hewett

We are called upon to record the loss of one of the last of the “early greats” in American Archaeology, Edgar Lee Hewett, who took his eternal place on December 31, 1946 with his illustrious contemporaries in the science— Lewis H. Morgan, Frederic W. Putnam, J. Wesley Powell, William H. Holmes, J. Walter Fewkes, Adolf F. Bandelier, Alice C. Fletcher, and Charles F. Lummis. Philosopher, teacher, world traveler and explorer, Doctor Hewett leaves an enviable record which includes: the founding and direction for thirty-seven years of the Archaeological Institute's School of American Research; the establishment of departments of anthropology in two leading universities (University of New Mexico and University of Southern California); the building of two important museums (Museum of New Mexico and San Diego Museum); the development and training of several distinguished professional archaeologists; and the endowment of “The Humanities” with numerous essays, papers, and books comprising more than two hundred titles—archaeological, philosophical, sociological, historical, and pedagogical—readable yet scholarly.

The Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico

The Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico

The New Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico

The New Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico

The New Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico

The New Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico

The Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico

The Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico

The Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico

The Hall of Ethnology of the Museum of New Mexico