| Show CLIFF DWELLERS SHOWED ED SKILL A AV V Kidder of Harvard Lec Lectures Lect Lectures tures t res at University on Work of the Ancient Potters The first of the lectures to o 0 be given under the auspices of the Utah Archaeological society this winter was delivered last evening at the University University University sity of Utah by A V Y Kidder of Har liar Harvard yard vard Mr Kidder was one of the par party party party ty of explorers by the society last spring under und t he I hl of Professor Cummings to explore r the cliff cUff dwellings in San an n JUan county count Utah Judge HP H P Henderson presided at atthe atthe atthe the meeting Professor Protessor Cummings made madea a few remarks n the work of the so society society clety made possible through the kind kindness kindness kindness ness of Colonel E A Wall who fur tur furnished fished the funds with which to carry carryon on the researches Professor Cum Cummings Cummings Cummings said that the thelast last expedition had accomplished much good and had ha hamade made possible the correct mapping of oC canyon The excavations had revealed a great many relics of ot great interest and a short exploration trip was made Into the extreme south southern southern ern era part of Utah where white man had never before belore traveled The relics were exhibited in their various forms and designs explained After Arter the lec lee lecture lecture ture refreshments were served Mr Kidder spoke as follows The Th cliff cUff dwellers were ere a people who ho once inhabited the more arid parts of the southwestern United States Their range included the southern part of bf C CUtah Utah southwestern Colorado C l rado and nd large sections of at Arizona and New Mexico They are to be distinguished from fro m mother other southwestern tribes by the fact that they built permanent houses Of bf stone or adobe Invariably associated with Ith which were wert ceremonial rooms or kivas They de depended depended depended largely for tor sustenance on the cultivation of corn beans and pump pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins kins and reached a degree of excel excellence excellence excellence lence in making pottery far in advance of any of their neighbors The development of among the Is one of ot the un unsolved unsolved solved riddles of American archaeology and the same is true of ot their culture as asa asa asa a whole It is a culture without a n begin beginning beginning ning fling We Ve find their thIr remains scattered over o er the whole southwest and everywhere their houses are well built their ceremonial ceremonial ceremonial nial rooms all follow a q certain carefully scheme and their t lr pottery is of an excellence which could only anI be reached by centuries of growth We Ye find no rough undecorated pot pottery pottery pottery tery no experiments These people seem to have sprung up fully lull matured flour flourished flourIshed flourIshed for a time ti and then mysteriously been reduced to toa a mere handful who now inhabit the pueblos of Arizona and New Mexico The ancient potters of San Juan Utah made as fine examples of o the great class of black and white ware as Ian an be found In the whole southwest Rad R pottery potter ex et except In lower Sah San Juan is rather un uncommon uncommon uncommon common and not very well make being thin and brittle The great geat at art of ot the San Juan potters lay la Jn in the wonderful way in which they could freehand paint p In a complicated design make It encircle the pot and join itself again so accurately that It is often impossible to tell where it begins I T say freehand because e you OU can never rind find scratches guidelines o or preliminary divi divisions on the surface which would help in the accomplishment of the design The whole surface of o the pottery potter is not marked over with figures as is so com common common I mon in primitive art Certain effective areas such as the border under the rim are picked out and decorated As to the symbols themselves it is not yet et pos possible possible sible to give any real explanation Some link between b tw en the ancient pottery potter whose symbols are yet a riddle to us and the modern which of ot course can be studied Is absolutely necessary hec and If It such Buch a alink alink alink link can be found it is I possible that we e emay may yet discover the fundamental mean meaning meanIng meaning ing of oC at least some of the designs It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is of the greatest importance that a thor thorough thorough thorough ough exploration of or these virgin fields ir Jr I ISan San Juan county should be made at once |
