Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-03
Notes of Interest
From State Museum


tsrsetAL COMPROMISED 70 aoeslno JOURNAL
Santa Re. March 49, Sulzcr of
Albuquerque today became member
OF the Archaeological society Of New
Mexico
H. = Lutz. city agent of the Santa
Fc. todnN arranged for % visit Of "a
knight Templar excursion from New
York and Boston to tN museum. oa
their way to the tucunial eouelave
at Los Angeles,
The current number of tho Amcri-
can Museum Journal received todlv
BY the museum gives AN account #
the Nelson excavations among the
Tanos ruins south OF santa Zee aud
those of Earl Morris in san Juan
county This will he followed 10y
monographs. abundanuy Illustrated
Tax Commissioners Amado Chaves
uf Albuquerque, member of the
Archaeological society today called
attention to the acts of vandalism az
Inscription Rock in Valencia county.
The museum viii ask the department.
Of the interior. TO make the postmas-
ter at nearby settlement. the GUS
todian. aud also for g small appropri-
alton To- fence the approach 90 the
,tock which is "A national monument
The current number of the Rulle-
tin of the society for the preserNa-
ton of New England Antiquities, just
received by the museum library, Is
beautifully illustrated with pictures Ut
cid landmarks In Newport Rhode Is
land, and other New England places
and gives an inkling of the big sums
spent in the New England states 80
preserve old landmarks
The following registered at the mu-
scum. Max Jaeger biz game nun
ter from New YORK city, whr has
hunted In the Alps, in Labrador ana
is ON his way to northern Arizona,
southern Utah, Colorado and WNom-
ing to hunt mountain lion and beat;
Dr. w. $ Rrackcn, CHICAGO. w. q.
benjamin. White Pigeon, Mich. Sis
ter Mary lauren, Cincinnati ONO:
sister Mary Benoit chicago, Miss
Mae Monahan Colorado Springs;
Frank Gcnez l.uisit Gomez. Ma
mosa. colorado. r. T. Edwards, Ala
mosa: Erwin Tears. Denver
Much priced Icy the museum
in the Palace of the Governors
is a collection of art antique
ties presented TO-DAY bN Gen. Il.
r. Robinson, Of Albuquerque, head of
the reclamation service for the In
dams in the southwest who Is ~
Santa Zee today with his daughter on
the way to san Juan county, bur de
laNcd by the snow blockade ON the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
The two works of art presented are
two terra Gotta heads modelled by
Emry Kopte. the famous sculptor,
who has spent the past year among
the Hopis The clay used is the same
that the Ilopi put into their pottery
one is The Judge, one of the Po-
lacca. and the other is that of a typi-
cal Ilopi woman. Both as ethnologi-
cal studies and as works Of art are
admirable.
Three wooden spoons. quantity fash
toned and notched with holes in the ,
handle from which they were sus-
pended. are unique and very ancient !
Most remarkable, perhaps, are two
sandals Of fiber taken out Of Il cliff
dwelling, thirty miles southwest of
Shiprock. on the Navajo reservation, !
They were discovered deep under the
debris. which evidently pres rNed
them by shutting out all air Their
size corresponds to- Il No. shoe and
in the imerstces NJ the fihers adobe
clay appears to he pressed. probably
by the pressure Of the debris
A small tnaia, with the black and
white decorations still family visible, Z
taken out of prehistoric burial place
with eighteen burials by Nayajos At
work on the Shiprock irrigation canal
out uf the san Juan, is a well proper
toned piece Of pottery of much in
tercst.
-Four fine piecrs'of pottery come I
from Hawaiian, near Iuni, one Of the
seven cities Of Cibola They are the
so-called basket and ceiled ware. ono |
Of the tinaias is especially well pro- (
portoncd and around the neck has
gailands in high relief, which give il /
the appearance of a Greek vase. AM
other one of the small tinaias has at I
each side the stub of what undoubt- I
eddy were handles.
General Robinson promises to add 7
other choice pieces to what viii be +
known as the Robinson collection. 4