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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo15amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Excavated rooms at San Pedro Viejo, showing a human burial, also two pottery vessels set into the floor for storage purposes EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST BY THE AMERICAN MUSEUM By Clark Wissler THE Museum began in 1909 a systematic investigation of the native inhabitants in the great romantic area known as the Southwest. Of all locahties in the United States this is the richest in archaeological re- mains and the most conservative and aboriginal tribes are found within its borders. In the past, enough research had been carried on in the Southwest to make it clear that the magnitude and complexity of the problems to be solved were beyond the limits of the regular resources of the Museum, and that it would be unwise to take up work in that part of the country until substantial outside support could be found. In 1909 Mr. Archer M. Huntington offered to give support to the undertaking. Accordingly, the curator of anthro- pology worked out a general plan, in conformity with which the work has pro- ceeded imtil now. In the main this plan was to take up the historical problem in the Southwest to determine if possible the relations between the prehistoric and historic peoples. It was decided to concentrate the Museum's energies upon the Upper Rio Grande Valley, because that seemed 395

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