Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-04-04
TRIBUTE PAID
BANDELIER BY
{. T. LUMMIS
Glowing EuIogy on New Mex
ico'S Greatest AnthropoIo-
giSt Read Before Archaeo-
logical Society,"


Santa re- April 3.The following
is the splendid tribute from the pen
ot Charles r. Lummis on Adolf r.
Bandelicr New MeXicos greatest an
thropolosst roHa by Attorney j. A.
Crist last evening before the New
Mexico Archaeological society az the
Palace of the Governors
''It is seldom that the death Of one
scholar makes so little noise In tha
press yet so serious vacancy in the
ranks of the worlds science IT'S THE
passing of Ad T.. Bandelier i'm Madrid
In the month of March, 1915
He was not newspaper scientist p
lruited by amiablc reporters. Fully
conscious of The results of his ahsc-
Lutte thorouehness OF work he Was
aycrse TO notorieb; he cared only FOR
The verdict of the scientific world
and even for that--uot enough 20 plr-
suc IT, lie was "a man essentially
modest Had he not been, he would
have been hlazoncd forth throughout
the world, as far less eminent scholars
have been. As IL is, his monument rs
his work, ana the love and reverence
Of those who knew MIN and his
achievement
"Hc was tho worlds foremost au-
thuliy ON the story Of Man In span
ish- America. as revealed hy the doca-
ments. the archaeological and ethno-
logical evidence His extraordinary
intuition was balanced by "a Judicial
quality no less rare, which character
ICES not only his writings but his own
estimate Of his own work His tire
less and conclusive investigations up-
set many theories, and made him
target of much controversy, of which
much was not of the same temperate
and equitable quality His work
throughout is distinguished no less by
It's deep and dehnitive learning, than
boy the moderation, gentlcness and jus
tice with which he disposed of the
cries and statements advanced with
less honest revision
"It is not too much to say that he
was the greatest genius of those who
have IN the New World devoted them
selves TO the study Of Spanish-Amer-
lea. An intellect notable in the most
brilliant environment. am old World
training, absolute devotion to his
chosen field, the personal abnegation
TO which neither danger nor hard
ship counted at all; q frontier tratu-
ing. which beyond his extraordinary
linguistic and commentary accomplish
ments made him competent to know
the peoples, the landscapes and physi-
ography of the southwest and Span
ish-America, as wen as the written
world; the personal quality which
made him az once an intimate and
friend among whatever tribes of ln-
dams or towns of McXicans or Ameri-
cans, among American or alien la
borers, among the punctillous states
men of Europe and Spanish-America
these are among the qualities which
contributed to his greatness.
1T is safe to say that no man has
rivalled his knowledge of the docu-
mentary history of Spanish-America.
II is safe to say that no student of
Spanish America has learned the field
SO thoroughly AT the personal cost OF
walking over IL SO many tens of thou
sands of miles, and talking i'm their
own language with SO many hundreds
of thousands of people whose history
he was studying and recording. This
quiet, unathlctic man. tramping alone,
unarmed without any provision what
ever for sleep or sustenance. ever
tile most desert reaches of New Mex
leo. Arizona and Mexico. through
peaccable regions. but also through the
very country where the Apaches were
then on the warpath for a heggarlyl
pittance of means where modern eN
petitions require twice as muchl
money for q month as he had for a
year. enjoying a severe case of small |
poX in the snow and alone on the buff
falo plains, tramping again through
the wilds Of the Amazon. and living
with It's cannibal tribes-it Is no Won
der that such a man with such a brain
TO search with, and such an expert !
ence to round him out, has left us
work much more vital than that of
the arm chair explorers and closet
scientists.
Ellis death marks the loss of the 4
quietest and most distinguished figure
in the new school of Americanists lie
always modcstly gave the credit tot
Lewis II. Morgan for dealing the
death blow 90 the Romantic school. |
While Morgan, in 1868. did prick the
bubble of prescoU's beautiful novel, !
it was Bandeler's conclusive invosti- !
cation which gives us The corner stone
Of all the serious study of the south /
west and of Standardization
His death marks the end of an
epoch-an epoch which wrote fins
for the old order of closet work and |
initiated the modern and honest
method of historic investigation by /
study Of the documents and the field |
alike Science viii never go back toll
the old method. aud from now on we
shall study history and all the other
sides 10 the story of Man after the
methods 10 which Bandelier has been
the most important contributor
while the world of science mourns |
this irreparable loss. there ls an add
ed and a personal bereavement toI
hose who know and love New Mexico I
The first American work and the first +
real work ever done in America In
the name of archaeology, WAS done !
by him in New Mexico, where he be- /
gan his explorations in 1880 These /
explorations took him over the whole |
southwest for many years From 1885
la 1892 he was a resident of Santa Fe I
where his h0spitable home, So graz
,iously presided over by his first wife, |
was well known 10 all
From Santa Zee in 1892. he went 10 /
Peru In charge OF The Willard seien-
tlfc expedition. Mrs Bandelier died |
In Lima soon after their arrival,
The following year he married I
Miss Fannie Ritter, Young woman Of /
wonderful charm, and also of a pro- /
found qualification TO share and aid |
in his scientific work. Highly edneat- |
I'd in English, French, German. Span
Ish, besides some of the Indian Lam
guages Of Peru and Bolivia, she had /
also a mind for that thorough and diff /
icuit documentary aHd hela research I
work characteristic Of Bandelier'sl
whole career. For about ten years /
these two walked and worked to.
sether through hardshlps and fire.
luent danger such as are seldom ex-
pcrienced by explorers, and hardly
ever by scientists Had II not been for