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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (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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Fireplace at Pueblo Kotyiti. on which the cooking was done Across the upright stones was placed a smooth stone slab tecture of individual buildings, suggests that the building plan was thought out before the construction work began. Within the rooms were found such stationary household effects built of stone slabs, as fireplaces and bins for food stuffs. Also cages containing the bony remains of turkeys and eagles were found. Scattered on the floor and throughout the debris from the col- lapsed upper stories were numerous implements and utensils of bone, stone and shell, as well as pottery. Most of the specimens were used in the preparation of food and clothing, but things were present also sugges- tive of the less material side of life as for example, tobacco pipes, flutes, whistles, and ornamental objects of shell and turquoise. Smooth peb- bles, quartz crystals, oddly shaped and curious rock formations, and even fossils were commonly met with and serve as testimony of ancient animistic beliefs. In one room was Human burial in refuse heap on which uncovered a small altar in the shape was later built a two or three story house. Qf a )ow platform. On it stood The body was tightly doubled up and laid .,' , „ , face down a human-like image of stone and 78
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