Excavations in the Chama Valley, New Mexico

Description

Author: Jeancon, J.A. (Jean Allard, Jr.) (1874-1936)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Pub Date: 1923

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight, but there’s a split in the lower gutter between the title page and the frontispiece.  No tears, bends, folds.  Previous owner’s stamp on upper corner ffep.  Includes two fold-outs, including frontispiece.  Wear to lower front cover edge at spine foot.   Wear to spine head. Light edge wear.

Notes: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 81.  Excavations conducted in 1919 of a ruin called “Turquoise Village” or, in Tewa, “Po-shu-ouinge” (east of Abiquiu, near the Chama River).  The Chama Valley is in Rio Arriba county, NM, just south of Pagosa Springs, CO, and east of Chaco Canyon.  A Chaco outlier?