| Show f p l F roW Workers Delve Into ito Caved weller Relics 1 z 4 l Ze fo 4 c 1 i J rJ 1 2 1 1 1 1 l' l i 1 4 2 4 r 1 1 pa i r N a 1 Bridge Fou Found d by C J r I I. I Museum Will Be Enriched Enriched En- En l' l riched From Results Which Were Obtained r i Through Labor of ol Professor I INTERESTING TE ESTING archeological archaeological rc- rc 1 search has been carried on Oil for the past five or six yea years in the southeastern south eastern part of or this state by Professor Byron Biron Cummings Cumming- under the auspices of the University of or Utah and its school chool of arts and and sciences This Thi work is primarily primar Jy to gather archeological specimens for c exhibition tion in in a n state museum which will wiH be located on the third floor of or the new administration til b in of the University This museum muse muse- i um will he be open to the lie public lle next t fall At the present time Professor Cummings s has a 1 large largo collection of specimens and will wiH gather many more next summer This museum will be he a state exhibit and no admission lee ice 1 will be bp charged The Th first expedition in 1906 was Into Carbon county and was made b bv by MV It Cum CummIngs miners al alone ue He lie spent Jent ent one month I In tracing out northern boundary hound of thI diU dwelling culture All this work is li e arch Into the Ow hl history ton o of the ho cliff dwellers who Inhabited this part of or the country supposedly about one thou- thou fc ton and years ears cars ago In 1007 accompanied h by four OUI university sity It ty students anti anI two newspaper ic- ic Professor Cumin Cummings Ings spent six Ix weeks In e exploring the region Ion north of or orthe the San Juan r river ht I In San Juan county and anil visited the won wonderful erful natural I bridges In White canyon At this time v I i thero theio was f no government o survey in inI I that part pait of or the y counti-y ard artl Mr 11 Cum Cum- Hn and party hartY mapped out ant th country coun coun- i r f tr try for III th thin first showing springs I It ca n uns antI and th tho different peculiar for for- or- or t T- T Te re e parl alpo aloo measured ur the natural bridges es for the first time Many Ian baskets and sandals ma madly made l from Crom roTa splints and J yucca wore were t herel on 1 this h Is trip if r anil also maiv mu pieces of pottery potter was f 1 du dus out of or the tho o old III burled burld mounds an and 1 C 1 T 1 U l JU 1 t Arc rt n nd t J f Tn In HOS a third thin wa was ma mode made e into the cUff cliff dwell ITS ITS' country A PartY cOI of Nell Neil elJ now n In n th the national mu eum um In Yn Vashi Washington Ch Iton I- I I ton lon Lochart Professor ProCessor Cummings s and three Harvard men passed two months I In excavating lan large f pueblos antI and burial rial mounds on Alkali ge FilC twenty-five twenty miles southeast of oC Monticello Mens Men's skeletons and earthenware bowls IK full fuH o of corn and beans which were burled buried In Inthe Inthe the mounds were collected and brought to this city to ad add to the tIle fast growing collection Some of tho thin party part crossed the San Juan river rJ allt and went far Car into the ulterior interior of the tIC Navajo In Indian lan reservation res res- er where they thc found a new cliff dwelling rc region lon This flits was the first party part to carr carry on work worl on the Navajo 1 reservation A lar large e cliff house was excavated d cont containing o roms rooms and anil many mallY articles v ete ef found such as stone stono and wooden Implements The fourth was as made In Inthe Inthe the thc summer of 09 h by Prof Professor Cum Cum- Nell Neil Judd ludd Ju d Donald B ame ar now In Paris art M M. Youn nn and Dr Blumb Tile Tue part parl remained In Inthe Inthe the field three months during during- which time the they explored explore canyons in northern A Arizona izona hona with wilh pueblos on the thc bottoms and cliff dwellings on the tho sides A AT I T ret many relics of ur the tho old caye cave dwell dwell- Jag culture were found foun In 6 1 th these c r especially tho and Kayenta Kay Kay- I l enta ent canyons I II I The fhe rave ave were a race of J who lived hived previous s to the tho cliff cUff dwellers ller to tn Il deductions 4 L. L by Mr Ir Cummings Many lan stone t Iii ments m were ul t as knives c hatchets and also sandals and wooden Implements That this I i was vas agricultural is shown b by the the- fact that thal large larre bowls wore vere found hi n those I caves es filled with corn and bean hcan preserved pre Pro f served from decay and ancI Tot rot bv hv tho fact that th eaves os were extremely i dry r Miny hn tools toos u c l in forming farming were wel found CO suco as planting planting- sticks s 3 and ard J we weed d cutters cutlers ma made e oy 0 Ia la a split mountain moun moun- lain tain g gats Its at's horn tl to the thC end of a stick Mr III Cummings s says bays Even Een art after J I 1 lug ing o a cave e. this l work Is like liko jI i looking for gold for we wc have havo to lo dig lg ft n t up evor everything thing that we find AM An of oC the with l the tue exception of lr U r t t v 1 c 4 lJ c s 4 q j 4 pt 4 3 P Side hill house of contains rooms looms This was discovered and excavated in 1909 by Professor Cummings Cummings' Gummings' Gummings Gum Cum party Professor sor Cummings returned the tho first of oC September but Mr Ir Cummings r re remained re- re in the field until the first of ot Januar January with his son san Found One of or the thc most Interesting discoveries discover r- r los Ics mad iad la four months w was s the thc finding cf of the Rainbow Indian name 1 natural bridge situated situated sit sit- near Navajo mountain six miles from the Colorado river This is thor tho the greatest r natural bridge In the United Stat States f It spans a 0 gorge 27 iii foot feet wide vide and M feet high Mr Cummings says nS n.'S that this lIlis bridge c hall hal never er hc been n seen by a an white mt man n him 1 us as the i country is extremely l rough h and not nolo oven even n the cowboys Vile rUc so far nto Into the tle rou rough h Interior InterI of th the tho reservation I In Fable v valley Nalley lle several miles from lom this bridge was sas found man many ruins of oC I old rock towers ers fifteen or twenty feet et high In this valle valley valluy a cliff ruin LS excavated 20 rooms In Inthis Inthis Inthis this old ruinous dw dwelling was found a apiece piece of rough woven cotton material made malIc supposedly from rom tho wild cotton which Is known to have been plentiful In that part of or Arizona All kinds kInd of ot stone hone bone and wooden implements sandals made from fiber flutes lutes made mso from ree reeds s and bones an and a pair of or ear pendants mh made of turquoise Inlaid on pieces of ot wood about an inch square found 7 t In tho the years 1010 and 1911 Professor 1 was In Europe rind nd dl did not nob I return until August J 1111 Sl so er very hittie I was accomplished When hen he returned he Immediately scent wr-nt back Into the country where he had started his reseal re- re seal ch ch work worle Mr 11 Cummings employed a number of Indians to h help lp him in Ids hIs work vork but as they are superstitious oUs and nUll afraid to df dig in the old ruins they were of little good 1001 except for or Wor work workaround workaround arou around the camp Medicine Mans Inn I An Interesting thing brought In from th this is trip was a medicine mans man's pouch found foun In one of or th the tho graves g This was the medicine that hat brought rain Wrapped up Imd Inside e a n prairie dogs dog's skin akin was wali a bunch of turkey feathers kernels kernels ker lier- nels of nf corn coni seed eed bundles of pollen and fossil teeth The pouch was tied tlell together with strings 6 made from rom human hair The Hopi and Navajo tribes u use e a a. medicine pouch similarly filled today A sixth trip was made last summer In the party w wore ro Professor Cummings Stewart Young and Andrew Kerr Ken teacher in the Ogden high school A great number of or earthenware pot sandals san Ran daIs dals and old stone slone weapons gath gath- ath- ath ered cred Two Iwo very cry large pots pota ere wel found in one cave can several sc feet underground each ono one containing about a of or corn cora and beans beRns Time The pots and th their I contents will vill be on exhibition next fall fait Most of or the zime Im last lost summer wa was nt In visiting hc Hopi Indians Indiana and i I I I. I I 2 z II I II Cotton cloth unearthed in excavations made of wild cotton studying their mo modes es of or living habits and religious ceremonies Two years ago no the st state legislature appropriated 2000 for paying the tho ex expenses expenses ex- ex of carrying ln on toe work worl Liberal Lib lAb eral donations by Col K I. A A. A Wall VaIl who i Is intensely Interested in lii res research arch work have havo al also o aided Mr t Cummings |
