Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-10

their fathers knew, and the Cliff Dwellers
are forgotten people.
With the trophies of his summers explo-
rations spread out about him, DR.. Cole has
turned his parlor into an anthropological
museum One table is covered with water
jugs and incense pipes. the sofa hidden I'M
shuttles and pottery. Another table Is
decked with row of grinning skulls and
! huge crossbones; beneath it comfortably re-
pose all the parts of a skeleton, from the
toe bones to the shoulder blades, waiting to
be wired together, and strewn about are
bows and arrows, baskets, jugs of twisted
twigs, made water-tight by pitch; modern
Indian pottery, photographs by the score
and a stump of petrified wood. The skulls
are particularly valued possession.
Look at those teeth said DR.. Cole, ten
derby fondling the skull of the giantess.
she has no incisors, no cutting teeth, in
front, as have all the other races of which
| have any knowledge. She has grinders
all around. and SO have the other skulls.
That shows they were grain eaters rather
| than meat eaters. The foreheads are high
and the shape of the skulls show intent
gence, but notice how curiously they are
fiattened at the back.
Charles Lumms thinks the Cliff Dwell
ers We're merely the ancestors of the pres
ent Indians. The Cliff Dwellers' skulls are
different, their habits were different, their
implements and pottery are different, and
they were a great deal more advanced than
the present Indians.
1T is my belief that an earthquake tum-
bled down the communal dwelling which |
have just visited. The people Were scared
away, and were afraid to go back for any
of their possessions. That is why the pot
terry and implements found untouched
Their religion must have been sun
worship. Their dead We're buried with the
knees drawn UP to the body, face down.
and head toward the setting sun In the
picture writing and on the pottery are con-
tinued repeated representations of the sun,
surrounded by streaming rays The turkey
was apparently regarded sacred b I'd.
Its bones are almost always found in the
graves and Its picture is frequent in the
picture writings. In the cave dwellings
We're long turkey runs and turkey rooms
where the birds We're kept and fed. The
Cliff jewellers cultivated fields in the val
ieys below their dwellings,. They had to
carry water to the top of the cliff. On the
mesa, however, there were water channels
ana rock cisterns for rain water and this
supplied them during portion of the year
We opened only two rooms, and one
factory that l am convinced any uniye1 si,y
! or scientific institution which set to worx
| to open and explore the ruins systematical-
| ly would be richly repaid. l estimate that
| TO complete the work would cost about SIn :
| coo The cliff dwellings, which are with n
| easy reach of relic hunters, have been de-
! spoiled and wantonly injured. Doors and
| lintels have been torn down, relics broken
or scattered; and the process of destrlction
greatly FASTENED. Arizona has an anti
quarian society, and southern California IFS
Landmarks Club but New Mexico ana
Colorado have no organizations of sufficient
strength to protect the relics Of the eff
Dwellers.''