Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-24
RESEARCH WORK
IN ARCHAE OLOGY
HIGHLY PRAISED
New Mexico Association Of
Science Gives Banquet and
Elects Officers Intensely In
tefeSting Session Held,

c. r. Kirk, of The University of New
Mexico, was elected president. F. a.
Jones. of the school of Mines al So
zorro. r. D. Barnes of State College
MI Las Cruces, and r. u. Rodgers Of
the Normal University al East Las
Vegas. vice presidents: r. W God.
dard Of the State College, correspond
ing secretary, Paul A. T. Walter of
me school Of American Archaeology
nj santa Fe recording secretary, and
~ C. Mackey Of the school of Mines,
member of the educational council of
the New Mexico Association Of Science
al a banquet held yesterday noon at
the Christian church. Covers were
laid for thirty members. G. II. Kirk
presided and tOasts were responded 70
bv K r. Larkin. referred to as the
nriole of the association, who told a
story of Hassaympa kind; by George
q. Ladd told Of an experience in
Munich and Salzburg. where he spent
TWO years that illustrated German ef-
fIciency. by William Henry Long
wished the society much success; by
n a. Jones Of Socorro, aud by others.
brilliant Research Work.
That research work Of very sub
stantial character is being done by
New Mexico institutions and savants
was demonstrated at the second ses-
sion of the Association of Science.
When X. NJ. Chapman of the School
of American Archaeology had con-
Guided his intensely interesting Illus
trated address on the cave drawings
of the prehistoric cliff jewellers, c. T.
Kirk who presided declared: This
is the style of original investigation
and character of paper that this So
ciety seeks to encourage
MIR. Chapman read part of a mono
graph he is preparing for publication
and il was the first public announce
ment and presentation of the wonder
fm discoveries made by the School of
American Archaeology In the Pajarito
park. 1t throws much light on the
evolution of primitive design and the
relation Of the primitive cliff dWellers
to the surrounding tribes. Mr. Chap
man demonstrated that pottery design
the world over, and in part also arch
itectural design, had their origin in
basketry and textile work Even
where every bit of textile has disap-
reared because of the raVages of time,
pottery design has faithfully preserv-
ed the textile designs, The speaker
and vet well balanced design of a pre-
historic blanket found IN sheltered
but isolated cave dwelling in Utah.
That the prehistoric inhabitants of the
Pajarito plateau were weavers has
been demonstrated not only by the re-
mains Of primitive looms and textiles
but also by the textile patterns found
among the prehistoric pictures on the
cave walls This summer the Spring
or expedition examined 800 caves and
painstakngly copied one hundred de-
signs, many Of them wonderful for
their freedom Of drawing and artistic
balance. While on the Mesa Verde
and among the Utah caves very little
of primitive handicraft is to be found
the 10 600 cave and cliff dwellings
twenty to thirty miles west of Santa
Fe abound in evidences of the prints
tive culture On the exterior walls
the photographs were chiseled into the
rock with tools of obsidian and flint
while the decorations in the caves
were engraved on the soft adobe on
clay plastering with bone needles. In
some caves there are as high as elgh-
teer coats of plaster, each heavy with
smoke and SCOT showing long oceu-
patton. The caves had no chimneys
but merely smoke holes and Mr.. Chap
man threw on the screen a number
of pictures that visualized the cave
dwellings. their interiors and arrange
ment and also, for the first time. the
pictures of the designs collected tins
summer. There was one long and
spirited frieze of a hunting scene, Of
cliff jewellers with masks in pursuit.
Of deer, in which the motion Of tho
hunters and of the game are portray
ed in most realistic and spirited man