The sun., 1919-11-02

ipCoN just announced
in the excavating OF the
First American Apartment
House" at Aztec, New Mexico, reveal
the mysterious people of the Pueblo
as a race high in ingenuity and
civilization, who anticipated the ablest
builders in modern America by more
than one thousand years. -
The important relics and remains
\ just unearthed form a connecting
link between the culture of the South
west and the manners and the Gus
toms of the present. These remark
able objects now in transit to the
American Museum Of Natural History
crown the achievements of its repre-
sentative. Earl H. Morris, and his CO.
workers, who for the last three years
have been exploring the great peublo
with the financial support of Archer
M. Huntington, who has done so much
to bring the people of the United
States in contact with the exploits of
the Spaniards who gave this New
World first to CASTLE and Leon.
When through the fortunes of war
this nation wrested from Mexico the
wonderful Southwest there were some
important finds made in the eff
dwellings of the region now known
as Arizona and New Mexico, but they
did not contribute much to our
knowledge of that ancient people from
whom a great deal has been learned
and Is still to be learned. The an
tiqulties which now have been brought
to light will be available for careful
study and research, for they are not
only a treasure trove to the archae-
Ologist, but may prove of great prac-
tical value to the men and women OF
this workaday world.
Egypt of New World.
The Egypt of the New World"
that land of the mesas of mystery
has often been called from which the
museum savants have taken these
evidences that there once lived a race
more advanced in the ways of COM
munity life than were any of the
Hborigines of North America.
The wrapped bodies Of the five
children which have just been brought
10 the outer air after having been in
O burial chamber for ten or twelve
centuries at least and probably more
suggest similarity between our own
Southwest and the land of the
Pharaohs. The forms OF the small
y pueblos whose souls went to the happy
hunting grounds so long ago seem not
unlike mummies, with thick shrouds
Of rush mats, rolled and folded and
bound tightly about them with cord OF
yucca Here is the same dry-hard
climate such as one associates with
Egypt, the same kind OF territory
where the San Juan River gave fertility
through man made sluices. as did the
Father Nile-and here are mighty
pyramidal dwellings, like gigantic
flights of stairs reared by patient toll
ers, who had neither beasts Of burden
nor wheeled vehicles.
The bodies of the dead were not
preserved with spicery and drugs such
as the Egyptians used, and yet in the
climate of the Southwest the skele-
tons at least are we'll preserved
through the centuries. Some of the
bodies found in the pueblos have hair
and vestiges Of skin and bear the
ornaments. often of turquoise, with
which they were buried The chill
dren were adorned in lifetime with
long strings Of tiny beads bored with
the cactus thorn. With the dead, as
IL shown by this recent discovery OF
rooms absolutely intact and with the
cedar ceilings still in place as though
the tenants he'd left them only lately
and they had been suddenly filed with
aust and debris, were buried pottery,
stone implements, cloths, rugs and
many other objects. The articles
which Mr.. Morris has obtained are
reported 10 be in a fine state of preser-
walton. The textiles used in the burial
wrappings closely resemble he faded
Coptic cerements OF the far distant
land where Rameses ruled. The pub
lie OF New York IA lil.ely to see one
day these carved wooden boards, the
plaques of basketry and the tools of
bone and stone which will shortly be
placed among the collections ut the
museum.
Close to State Line.
The ruins at Aztec, New Mexico,
are about two hours ride from Du
range, Col, as they are close to
the State line. The huge apartment
bad 400 rooms and had an area of
10000 square feet, II was covered
over withN dust and sand, but owing
70 the labors OF the explorers II has
now been almost all disclosed, and
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