The Ruins at Kiatuthlanna, Eastern Arizona

Description

Author: Roberts, Frank H.H., Jr. (1897-1966)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Pub Date: 1931

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Ex-library.   Binding tight.  No folds.  This copy was withdrawn from the Peabody Museum.  Museum gift bookplate and “Withdrawn” stamp on front pastedown.   Library tags on lower front cover corner and spine foot.  Title hand-written on spine.  Original paperback copy rebound in hardcover (see photo above for cover design).  Edge and corner wear.  I had the front gutter repaired (see photo above for original condition).

Notes: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 100.  Kiatuthlanna is Zuni for “Place of the Big Water”.  North of St. Johns, AZ, a few miles east of the Petrified Forest NM.  The Zuni believe it was one of the places their ancestors rested and built during their migration from their origin place to their present pueblo in western New Mexico.  This copy was a gift to the Peabody Museum from Roland Burrage Dixon (1875-1934), former librarian of the Peabody Museum.  For a biography of Dixon see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Burrage_Dixon