| Show A BOOK REVIEW r Archeological Investigations in Central Utah by John Gillin GiUin The Peabody Museum of oC Harvard Harvard Harvard Har Har- vard University kindly sent me with their compliments a copy cop of above entitled volume volume on on research conducted at Marysvale C Clear I e ear a r Creek Canyon and Ephraim conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted jointly by the University of Utah and Harvard University in 1937 under John Gillin Gitlin There is a foreword by Donald Scott Director of the Pea Peabody bod Museum Museum Mu Mu- seum who speaks of the expeditions expeditions various scientific works on Utah Utah Utah- Morss Gillin on Nine Nino Mile Canyon Dr Albert B. B Reagan who has hns written extensively but not illuminatingly Harrington on Casa Casa Casa Ca- Ca sa Grande the so-called so Buried City of Nevada Wetherill on Zion Canyon and Nusbaum on Cottonwood Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton- Cotton wood Cave Our chief reliance must be upon the thoughtful work and discussion of Julian H H. Steward Steward Stew Stew- ard who on the basis of excavations excavations excavations excava excava- and reconnaissance in many parts of f the state for the first time organized the material so far available available available avail avail- able and ably laid the ground for further studies This territory Is s on the northern periphery of the Southwest culture HopI etc It is well known that the Hopi language is closely related to languages spoken by Ute and other tribes to the north What were the steps b by which one group of a number of ng related languages es took over Pueblo culture These quotation are made by me meto meto meto to show that the glyphs on the cliffs contain much s symbolism symbolism sym sym- m which is what my Indian informants here have told me for I years ears they classing many petro- petro glyphs as pope Moki their word in Ute for meaning Thing done my The They r disclaim that the writings are done by their ancestors ancestors ancestors an an- in most cases saying Not Wee done pope a Things by our old ld timers So let us rest content that much of the Indian Rock Writing has a substratum of Hopi influence and the symbolism in many cases corresponds corresponds corresponds cor cor- cor- cor responds with Hopi Zuni and other symbolic designs In the preface by Gillin he mentions mentions mentions men men- William Mulloy Bill as everybody everybody everybody ev ev- else calls him son of oC a U. U P. P conductor whom I met metIn metin metin in Fillmore and Bill called at this office a few years ago and spent a half day talking with me I have been all over this portion of Utah with Dr Julian H H. H Steward Fool Creek Peak Abraham Judd Creek the Deseret glyphs and t took ok him to tb Clear Creek Canyon where we photographed the fine glyphs there then again at White Rocks Indian Reservation in the northeast corner of Utah I have met Elmer Smith visited Sevier Lake Lakein in m his work Gillin GilIm worked on low mounds near Marysvale in small mounds were about three feet in height He uncovered round and square houses some with fireplaces es centrally located to be entered by climbing through a hole in the topI have two hatch hole covers In my collection of oC the thin rock slabs the ancient householders used used used us us- ed for covering the entrance e hole In bad weather i 1 iSome 18 W Some of the houses had big posts in the corners to support the roof weight upright small poles laid in I between and then woven into and with willow and I Ithe the whole then daubed with adobe I mud called b by us wattle and daub but scientifically known as I jacal patterns of houses Some of I Ithe the houses had adobe coursed side I walls The fireplace was usually a circle rimmed That is is s suppose an I Indian were to tr try to draw a house house on the rocks rocks rocks- a circle or square with dot in center would do it it to his and our satisfaction He found rectangular houses with fireplaces within he found Kivas with fireplace and that most important important important im im- im- im element elemont the SIPAPU the the theone theone theone one thing most symbolic to the Indian Indian Indian In In- dian of his origin origin- from the interior in interior interior in- in of the earth In these kivas in some he found the ventilator the Hie deflector and the tunnel all fixing them as conforming conforming conforming con con- forming to usual Hopi practice in respect to kiva construction These things of course are not ferociously to the layman layman lay lay- ayman ay- ay man but of keen interest to the student The layman wants to find I mummies whole pottery by the wheel borrow full full and artifacts by bushels upon bushels bushels- all the of archeology turns into mere plain hard work spade and trowel vol trowel study and labor To resume he finds semi arrean pit houses He finds in the st state slate te adobe walled houses he finds a floor In one At Marysvale he finds four types of structures pit I II structures semi houses hous hous- es eSt kivas and houses hOUS 1 I Some of the rooms seem too small for habitation in the ordinary ordinary ordinary nary sense In one room a sherd and an awl were the only cultural al objects I note with interest standing free walls of wattle in one instance Corn stalks massed willow stems may have been the roof covering I In one case it looked as If seed corn had been hung up in the house to dry In that house It is assumed assumed assumed as as- that that- entrance was via a roof hole As to paucity of objects ed pillin illin says Only r one whole vessel was recovered during the season and five restorable vessels The The amateur would say no soap on that kind of mop off the sweat and hump away I mentioned somewhere that archeology archeology archeology ogy was work hard work and not I all I He shows a restoration of the from of house pit structure supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting poles wattle and daub sidewalls sidewalls side walls fireplace in center and entrance entrance entrance en en- trance hole through roof Very in in- in One passage in the book will set you tingling tingling- This looks more like a case of deliberate arson than the burning of the other structures es reading which you and I will fill in Raided the p peaceful agriculturists agriculturists agriculturists ag ag- ag- ag were raided by the predator predatory predatory pred pred- ator atory Utes who caught Mister Man and killed him and then set fire to the house Took the women as captives Wed We'd have a right to build that in And thus slowly or with speed the Ute got much of the arts religion and daily life of oC the very Pueblo an culture he raid raid- ed Now we can savvy the word pope Moki done by the Mo Mo- kis kis- kis the dead ones It opens up upa a field and imagination can run hand in hand with scattered fact fact fact- but shouldn't get too far ahead ahead ahead a- a head of oC the factual Gillin finds twenty-three twenty hands a red and orange paint in a cave in Clear Creek Creek- Canyon I had previously previously previously pre pre- found Cound a smaller group in a cave on the other side of the creek Twenty-three Twenty hands and not on a shovel shovel- a project In Manning Canyon about eight miles south of Marysvale Gillin finds a series of petro glyphs of which he lie says The designs seem to be typically Pueblo Pueblo Pueblo- rake or a ladder zag zig-zag spiral spir spir- al al a wheel with four spokes and anda a square with a single dot in the center All AlJ familiar symbols I must must go there and get a photo I take exception to to Nowhere were horned dancers of the Fremont Fremont Fremont Fre Fre- mont type pictured by Morss noted noted noted not not- ed in either pictographs or petro petro- glyphs of this area Unless I misunderstand misunderstand misunderstand mis mis- understand the terminology I have more than one horned dancer got m in Clear Creek Canyon As to arrowheads and the larger projectile points we have here in Millard examples of each type type type- triangular plain side notched the tange-d. tange flaring wings side notched notched notch notch- ed no notches and the leaf shaped In addition we have havethe havethe havethe the so-called so fish shape which looks just like a fish tall tail fins equal and no perceptible notch notch- just a hint toward a notch He finds He finds bison bones In the prehistoric prehistoric prehistoric pre pre- historic refuse Emory John found the skeleton of a bison on the shores shor shor- es of bf Sevier Lake showing that in historic times a straggler reached here As to pottery Gillin found more kinds than we have here on the Sevier Desert or at Kanosh here I our most usual kind Is gray which may be plain or painted with black designs on it if It had seen fire I service the gray is blackened to al alI almost almost al- al I most any degree depending on the length th of such cooking use we al all alI also al- al l I so have corrugated thumb nail naU Impressed ImI Impressed Im Im- I I pressed and besides the plain ware We have two conical pots found here which I 1 haven't so soI I far seen pictured as found by set set- scientific scientific expeditions I The book is very Interesting I thank the Peabody Museum for it |
