The Pajaritan Culture (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Hewett, Edgar L. (1865-1946)

Publisher: Archaeological Institute of America

Pub Date: 1909

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (DU): Poor to Fair.  Ex-library.  Stapled binding tight.  No folds.  At least 4 previous owners, maybe 5 before it got to me.  Library stamp and “Withdrawn” on upper front cover edge, and library tag at bottom front cover corner at spine foot.  Library check-out card, envelope and tag on inside rear cover.  One previous owner’s signature on upper front cover corner near spine head.  Another previous owner’s stamp near bottom front cover edge, bottom edge half-title page, and on rear cover.  Red pencil underlining Hewett’s name on front cover.  All corners front and rear are bent, worn.  Sun-fading to spine and front cover spine edge.  And there’s edge wear too.  Copy 2 (LC21): Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 4″ fold, with a smaller (approx. 1/4″) bend at corner.  Lower front cover corner at spine foot has an approx. 1/8″ tear, with folding to the corner.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/2″ bend.  Front spine edge sun-faded.  Lower rear cover corner has an approx. 3″ fold, bent corner.  Edge wear to lower rear cover edge.  Sun-fading to rear spine and verso edges.

Notes:  Pamphlet.  Papers of the School of American Archaeology Number Three.  The Pajaritan (in Hewett’s nomenclature) culture is located on “….the plateau lying between the Jemez Mountains and the Rio Grande and extending from the Chama valley to Canada de Cochiti…” (page 334).  “The archaeological remains of this culture are scattered over almost the whole of the Pajarito plateau.  There were three principal foci of population, the Puye, the Pajarito, and the Rito de los Frijoles.  The degree of ethnic relationship between these groups remains to be established, but certain common characteristics that persist throughout indicate relationship as close perhaps as that now existing between the Tewa villages of San Juan, Santa Clara, and San Ildefonso…” (ibid.)  One of the previous owners of Copy 1 may have been Clyde Kluckhohn, his signature on upper front cover corner.