Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . ^cu 34 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION trict and a pumping system was required to carry excess water tolower levels. Remains of ancient Indian adobe settlements are scattered over thevalley. One important ruin preserved for science is the property ofthe Heard Museum and lies in the heart of Phoenix. Another, inthe eastern section of the city, is under the care of Mr. Halseth, beingexcavated by him and prepared as a civic attraction. The ruin LosMuertos, explored by Gushing, lies south of Tempe. Other ruins havebeen leveled. Collections
Explorations and field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in .. . ^cu 34 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION trict and a pumping system was required to carry excess water tolower levels. Remains of ancient Indian adobe settlements are scattered over thevalley. One important ruin preserved for science is the property ofthe Heard Museum and lies in the heart of Phoenix. Another, inthe eastern section of the city, is under the care of Mr. Halseth, beingexcavated by him and prepared as a civic attraction. The ruin LosMuertos, explored by Gushing, lies south of Tempe. Other ruins havebeen leveled. Collections of archeological interest are to be seen inthe Heard Museum and the Phoenix Free Museum, Phoenix, andthe University of Arizona Museum at Tucson. In the late seventeenth century the first white man penetrating thevalley found that the Indians had abandoned the canalizations of their. ^?. Fk;. 39.—Embankment of ancient canab, near iliucnix, Ariz. M forefathers. The Pimas had no traditions as to the reasons for thisnor as to the time when they were abandoned. It is evident that thePimas are a remnant of the large population that constructed scoresof miles of the canals and were decimated by causes unknown. ThePimas still irrigate by means of canals that lead from the river andare filled at the time of floods. It appears that the former inhabitantsof the large adobe ruins near Tucson, visited during the course of thisstudy, watered their fields mainly by warping along the Santa CruzRiver and the Rillito. In conclusion, it may be said that the canal system of the Salt andGila Rivers is a development of the warping irrigation practiced byother Southwestern Indians. Credit for assistance in this investigationis due Dr. Byron Cummings, Col. J. H. McClintock, Will C. Barnes,and Odd S. Halseth. CAVE BURIALS IN SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS By frank M. SETZLER Assista)it Curator,
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