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Title: Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos
Papers Of The Archaeological Institute Of America, American
Series, Vol. I

Author: Adolphus Bandelier

Release Date: October 27, 2007 [EBook #23224]

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Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America.

_AMERICAN SERIES._

Volume I

[Illustration: PLATE XI. MAPS OF COUNTRY NEAR SANTA FE.]

Papers of the Archaeological Institute of America.

_AMERICAN SERIES._

I.

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1. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO STUDIES
AMONG THE SEDENTARY INDIANS OF
NEW MEXICO.

2. REPORT ON THE RUINS OF THE PUEBLO
OF PECOS.

BY
A. F. BANDELIER.

BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY A. WILLIAMS AND CO.
LONDON: N. TRUeBNER AND CO.
1881.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA.

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Executive Committee, 1880-81.

CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, _President_.

MARTIN BRIMMER, _Vice-President_.

FRANCIS PARKMAN.

W. W. GOODWIN.

H. W. HAYNES.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.

WILLIAM R. WARE.

O. W. PEABODY, _Treasurer_.

E. H. GREENLEAF, _Secretary_.

I.

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
TO
STUDIES AMONG THE SEDENTARY INDIANS
OF
NEW MEXICO.

PART I.

BY AD. F. BANDELIER.

I.

HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.

Part I.

The earliest knowledge of the existence of the sedentary
Indians in New Mexico and Arizona reached Europe
by way of Mexico proper; but it is very doubtful whether or
not the aborigines of Mexico had any _positive_ information to
impart about countries lying north of the present State of
Queretaro. The tribes to the nor