Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-02-13
WONDERFUL RUINS
NEAR SANTA FE
Interestingly Des-
ribed By Profess
sor Hewett
AT LECTURE IN CAPITOL
Cliff Dwellings of New Mex
leo Most Rare-.-May Estab-
lish School Here.

I h~S AFASSk ANS<A ASoNS~S
lish School Here.
81 am wild to see the cliff dwellings
Of New Mexico It Is one of the parts
Of the United States which have not
seen. | must see them" These
were the words of President Roosevelt
recently to Professor Edgar l.. Hewett
Of Washington, d. G.. but formerly
president of the Normal University of
New Mexico at Las Vegas, who ad-
dressed large audience last evening
in the Hall of Representatives at the
| Capitol. AS another instance of the
great interest taken lately throughout
| the United States in archaeology is
| the fact that the government printing
presses cannot keep up with the de-
mand for bulletins on archaeological
| subjects, although shelves are lum-
bered with dust-covered bulletins on
other subjects. A third proof of this
great interest lies in the fact that
there is no difficulty in securing the
financial means to carry on the work
of excavation in different parts of the
American Continent and to pay the
expenses of the archaeologists in the
field. Yet, wherever Professor Hewett
has gone Of late explaining the won
ders of American archaeology, he has
heard the exclamation: 81 never
knew that such things were to be
found ON the Western Continent |
am going to New Mexico at the first
chance to see these cliff dwellings,"
He has therefore not found it difficult
to organize many state branches of
the American Institute of Archaeol-
ogy
Wonderful Ruins Near Santa Fe.
To those who heard Professor
Hewett's lecture last evening and saw
the fine pictures of archaeological re-
mains that We're thrown upon the
screen by Professor W. E. Garrison,
this interest in the subject Is not as
tonishing. Marvellous and stupendous,
hardly describe these archaeological
monuments that are scattered along
the backbone of the Continent from
Alaska to Panama. II was shown that
the ruins in the Pajarito Park. thirty
miles west of Santa Re, are by no
means the least interesting nor most
unimportant Of these archaeological
remains. The caves in the tufa cones
in the Otowi Canon, four hours jour
ney west of this city, are not only pic
turesque, for instance, but unique in
that Tibet in eastern Asia alone fur
nishes any archaeological remains re-
sembling them. The communal build
ing on the Puye, is the largest thus
far discovered, having had $50 rooms
on the ground floor and having been
apparently four to five stories high,
These pictures taken in the PaJarito
Park and several pictures of restora'
tions showing what these cave dwell
ings and communal buildings looked
like when they were inhabited, were
as striking as the pictures shown OF
the ruins Of the Mesa Verde where
whole communities built their houses
and round towers in single cave
formed by overhanging lodges, or as
the pyramid of Cholula, the ruins OF
Cuernavaca, the temples of Mlttlan
and other famous ruins of Mexico
which were depicted on canvas and
graphically described by Professor
Hewett. The Pyramid of Cholula COW
ers twice the ground area of the Pyra-
mid of Cheops in Egypt and the RELIEF
carving and sculptures adorning the
temples of southern Mexico are the
equal of the finest sculptures to be
found among the ancient civilizations
of Europe and Asia. 1t Is remarkable
that the plumed serpent found among
the photographs in the prehistoric
ruins around Santa Fe also forms the
motive Of some of the most elaborate
decorative sculptures of the ancient
Aztec civilization of Mexico and of the
still older Maya civilization. Besides
showing pictures of temples, sculp-
lures and ruins, Professor Hewett ex-
hibited portraits of the Indians who
are the lineal descendants of the Az
tees and speak the ancient Aztec Ian
guage as we'll as of other types OF
Indians living in southern Mexico as
far south as the Isthmus Of Tehuan-
tepec.
American School Of Archaeology.
In conclusion, the speaker told of
the work that is being done by the
American Institute of Archaeology, in
corporated by Act of Congress. and
which maintains schools of archaeol-
ogy at Rome, Athens and Jerusalem
where. thus far, the most important
work in archaeology has been done.
Attention, however, is to be given to
much greater extent to American
archaeology in the future and for that
purpose trained workers are needed
A school of American archaeology is !
to be established where these work
ers can be fitted for their task, Mex
leo, Los Angeles, Denver and other
places have or will make generous Of.
fers Of buildings and funds for the