. Bulletin. Ethnology. EXCAVATIONS IN THE CHAMA VALLEY, NEW MEXICO By J. A. Jeancon INTRODUCTION In presenting this paper on the excavations carried on during the summer of 1919 in the Chama Valley it is the intention to deal with certain phases of the pre-Columbian pueblo culture of the Rio Grande and Jemez Plateau which it is believed have not been presented be- fore in full detail. This culture has been studied to a certain extent, but there remains a vast field of virgin territory to be opened up. On the two sides of the Chama River, from its mouth to Abiquiu, a distance of about 25 miles,
. Bulletin. Ethnology. EXCAVATIONS IN THE CHAMA VALLEY, NEW MEXICO By J. A. Jeancon INTRODUCTION In presenting this paper on the excavations carried on during the summer of 1919 in the Chama Valley it is the intention to deal with certain phases of the pre-Columbian pueblo culture of the Rio Grande and Jemez Plateau which it is believed have not been presented be- fore in full detail. This culture has been studied to a certain extent, but there remains a vast field of virgin territory to be opened up. On the two sides of the Chama River, from its mouth to Abiquiu, a distance of about 25 miles, there are 10 or more ruins of which practically nothing is known. From Abiquiu west the country is still a closed book, not even a scientific reconnaissance having been made in a territory covering. /ffl â / no \ Po-5HU-oiyiNCjE -Map showing location of Po-shu-ouinge with reference to Abiquiu, New Mexico. over a hundred miles in width, and of greater length. Sur- veyors, ranchmen, and others who have passed through this region tell of the large numbers of ruins and minor antiquities which abound there. At a point about 22^ miles above the confluence of the Chama River and the Rio Grande, on the south side of the Chama River, is located a ruin which was formerly known as the "Turquoise ; The name, when applied to this particular ruin, was not known to any of my Tewa informants, and I learned that the cor- rect name for it is "Po-shu-ouinge," meaning "Calabash at the end of the ridge ; ^ (PI. 1; fig. 1.) As a preliminary study of the farther western country this ruin was selected for excavation, with the hope that it might be a guide 1 J. p. Harrington in his Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians, 29th Ann. Rept. Bur. Amer. Ethn., translates It as " Squash projection height ; 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloratio
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