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Show I s i - - ' a f l- fx : - , t I i - f s i 1 i i Mi"'- ' - v ;& f 1 I " t J , i ; i ;f&: 4iis: iiiiiijsssiirSii mm m mm mmm ... .s-:i.:mm vy;mi?mym- Mim-:xm:ii?.m;mmit irjDIAN LORE Dr. J. D. Jennings, Glen Canyon archeological project director, and Miss Dee Ann Suhm, supervisor of the Glen Canyon laboratory at the University of Utah, examine a throwing stick used by Pueblo Indians 800 years ago to kill or stun small game. Study Made of Pueblo Indians at Glen Canyon Dam Prior to Water Covering Up All Traces It has been nearly 800 years since a 26-year drought forced Pueblo Indians who lived in Southern Sou-thern Utah's Glen Canyon to move to Arizona and New Mexico But they didn't go without leaving behind traces of their way of life. And for the past two years, University of Utah arohaeologlsts have been examining and analyzing analyz-ing the relics of their campsites and settlements with the aim of finding out about the Indian civilization civ-ilization before the waters of Glen Canyon Dam cover all traces of it. The work is being done under the Upper Colorado River Basin Archaeological Salvage Project of the U.S. National Park Ser-' Ser-' vice, with Dr. Jesse D. Jennings, head of the University's anthropology anthro-pology department, as Project Director. With rafts, jeeps, pack animals ani-mals and on foot, the archaeologists archaeol-ogists travel to the 1,000 sites of Pueblo activity found to date in the area to be covered by Dam waters. The sites range from permanent multi-room dwellings to spots where pictures have been chipped or painted on the steep canyon walls. At sites where settlement remains re-mains have been exposed to weathering, pottery, arrow points and bone or horn tools which have withstood the wind, rain and frost of 800 years are found. At cave sites the archeologists have discovered mummies, woven baskets, a oedar bark cradle board, sandals, pieces of cotton thread and a paint stirring stick, as well as more durable items. All artifacts that can be removed re-moved even to a dried out corn cob are placed carefully in numbered num-bered paper bags and sent to a two-story barracks building on the U. campus which has been equipped by the University as a Salvage Project laboratory. There, the specimens are sorted out, arranged in numerical sequence se-quence and washed. Sometimes lab workers are able to restore complete utensils from the pot tery fragments they receive. All specimens are numbered and filed, some of them in fumigated fumi-gated cabinets where they are safe from the ravages of Utah's carpet beetles. In the fall, the field archeologists will come to the lab to analyze them and determine de-termine their significance. A piece of dull gray corrugated corrugat-ed pottery may tell them a surprising sur-prising amount about the people who made and used it. Miss Dee Ann Suhm, who directs lab activities, ac-tivities, says styles in color and shape of pottery meant to the Pueblos about what the different differ-ent automobile models mean to present-day Utahns. Plant and animal remains are also studied by specialists in both Utah and Arizona. And preliminary prelim-inary historical studies are now complete. Eventually this research work will result in a museum to be built at Glen n-i-yon headquarters, headquar-ters, and the Pueblo culture will come alive for visitors from thru-out thru-out the world. |