Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . )lies that the ]\Iesa Verde cliff-dwellers had a cult like that of the. Fig. 119.—Head-rest from Oak-tree House, Mesa Verde National Park,•? Colorado. Hopi, and as phallic rites and personages are pre-eminently associatedby the latter with New-fire ceremonies, it may be that the cliff-dwellers of Painted House practised the same or similar rites. The specialization of these two great buildings for ceremonial pur-poses and the evidences of the former existence of a considerablepopulation nearby, seen in the size of Clif
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . )lies that the ]\Iesa Verde cliff-dwellers had a cult like that of the. Fig. 119.—Head-rest from Oak-tree House, Mesa Verde National Park,•? Colorado. Hopi, and as phallic rites and personages are pre-eminently associatedby the latter with New-fire ceremonies, it may be that the cliff-dwellers of Painted House practised the same or similar rites. The specialization of these two great buildings for ceremonial pur-poses and the evidences of the former existence of a considerablepopulation nearby, seen in the size of Cliff Palace and other cliff-houses in the neighboring caves, impart peculiar interest to the study NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I915 97 of the distribution of aborii^inal culture characteristics of the MesaXerde National Park. Information has been brought from time to time to the attention ofthe Smithsonian Institution that there exists in the northern part ofTexas a large ruin known as the Buried City of the Panhandle. Thename suggests that this may be a community dwelling, and it hasoccurred to several stitdents that this city, if su
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