I oo Hai shberger. — Maize : 



western Colorado, contains numerous ruins of the cliff- 

 dwellers. 1 "Above the cliff village was found a crevice 

 evidently used as a kitchen and storehouse, as is shown by the 

 beans and corn, which were found in a good state of preserva- 

 tion." Members of the Peabody Museum, 2 in an exploration, 

 found a few cobs in a cliff-house on the Mancos River, which 

 corresponded with the "Conejos" maize in that they were 

 five inches long, with kernels small and flinty. Dr. Hayden, 3 

 in exploring the ruins in southwestern Colorado, states in his 

 account that " in some of the rooms [of the ruins, which he 

 examined] were found human bones, bones of sheep, corn- 

 cobs, raw hides and all colors and variety of pottery ware." 4 

 Birdsall 5 describes the discovery of maize in the cliff- dwellings 

 of the Mesa Verde, in southwestern Colorado and northern 

 New Mexico. Stalks, husks, tassels, silk, cob and kernels of 

 corn were found. "That some of this material is as old as 

 the building is proved by the fact that the stalks were used in 

 the construction of the floors, being actually imbedded in the 

 adobe ; cobs being also used to chink the walls with, an 

 impression of the cob in the now hard adobe being found on 

 detaching one from its bed." The corn was a small dent. 

 The cob was about three inches long. Bandelier 6 made some 

 very interesting discoveries on the side of the Arroyo de 

 Pecos. Human bones, walls of ancient structures, and a 

 grave were found on the bluff much above a layer of white 

 ashes, charcoal, corn-cobs and corrugated pottery, in a con- 

 tinuous seam 327 feet (100 m.) from north to south. "Con- 

 sequently the walls and graves must have been built over the 

 remains of a people which appears to have made indented and 

 corrugated pottery [and used corn, as the remains show], and 

 consequently the latter must be older, in time, than the 

 former." It does not appear that the sedentary Indians of 

 New Mexico made anything within recent times except 



'Gannett, Henry, Pop. Sci. Month., xvi, 671. 



2 Peabody Museum, 11, 552, note- 



3 Hayden, Pop. Sci. Month., XII, 21. 



4 See page 101 • 



5 Birdsall, American Antiquarian. XIV, 135. 



"Bandelier, Archeol. Inst. Amer., Rep, on Ruins of Pueblos of Pecos, 18S1. 



