Franciscan Awatovi: The Excavation and Conjectural Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Spanish Mission Establishment of a Hopi Indian Town in Northeastern Arizona

Description

Authors: Montgomery, Ross Gordon (1888-1969); Smith, Watson (1897-1993) and Brew, John Otis (1906-1988)

Publisher: Peabody Museum

Pub Date: 1949

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Binding tight but slightly cocked.  No marks.  Lower rear cover corner has one approx. 4″ bend, and fold and wear at corner which affects the last 12-15 pages.  Lower front cover corner has approx. 1″ bend, with two longer creases above.  Lower front cover corner at spine edge has approx. 1/2″ tear.  Upper front cover corner has approx. 1″ crease, extends to first couple of pages.   Smudging to side text block (dirty fingers).

Notes:  Reports of the Awatovi Expedition, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Report No. 3.  The Awatovi Expedition is archaeological history, not just for the site and its excavation, but also for the people involved.  Brew was the expedition leader (and was married during the 1939 field season).  Al Lancaster, Hattie and Bert Cosgrove, Richard Woodbury, Watson Smith, John Hack, Edward T. Hall, Anna O. Shepard, Charles Avery Amsden, Erik Reed, Fred Eggan, and the list goes on.  This was the last great archaeological expedition before World War II intervened, and that little dust-up caused the delay in publication of all but the first volume of the Awatovi papers.   The first volume in the Awatovi series was The Changing Physical Environment of the Hopi Indians of Arizona (Hack, Peabody Museum, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, 1942) (see https://joethebookguy.com/shop/archaeology/the-changing-physical-environment-of-the-hopi-indians-of-arizona/ )  There is a wonderful history of the Peabody Awatovi Expedition, Remembering Awatovi, by Hester Davis (Peabody Museum Press, 2008).