Indians of the Southwest / by Pliny Earle Goddard.

  • Pliny Earle Goddard
Date:
1913
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Credit: Indians of the Southwest / by Pliny Earle Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. The Southwest claims the attention of those inter- ested in ethnology in three important particulars. Such physical conditions as the rather scanty rainfall, the great evaporation, the high elevation of the table- lands, and the peculiar vegetation which exists under these conditions, set it off rather distinctly from the Eastern and Central United States. Under these not too favorable physical surroundings, there have been maintained for a long time two strikingly different cultures, both meeting in their own way these condi- tions with success. Finally, we have here an unusual perspective resulting from the splendidly preserved prehistoric ruins and from historical records and descriptive literature covering nearly four centuries of contact with Europeans. Region Defined. This region is separated from the culture area of the Plains by the staked plains where there exists neither fuel nor drinkable water. They were crossed in both directions: by the people of the Southwest who went eastward to hunt the buffalo and by the Comanche and Kiowa who raided the Mexican and Indian settle-
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