598 GENERAL VIEW OF ARCHEOLOGY OF THE PUEBLO REGION. 



The majority of the above (1 to 0) are sites occupied within the hist 

 four centuries and abandoned at intervals from the time inmiediately 

 preceding the Spanish occupation doAvn to 1S38. The years imme- 

 diately following 1680 were particularly disastrous to the Rio Grande 

 Pueblos. Archeological research at these sites should be fruitful in 

 throwing light upon the first influences of the exotic civilization upon 

 the indigenous tribes. They are all ruins of considerable magnitude, 

 but in many cases reduced to mounds. 



10. * Pajarito Park.i W'hh. L. : 



Shufinne. 



Otowi. 



Puye. (Plato i. fis- L) 



Tsankawi. j 



Cliff (Iwt'lliiiKf^ of Shulinno Mesa. 



Cliff (l\vel!iuj<s of Puye Mesa. 



Cliff (Iwellinss of Clini)adero Canyon. 



Cliff dwellinjis of Sandia Canyon. (Plate i. fig. 2.) 



This is strictly a prehistoric district and archeologicalh'' one of the 

 richest in the Pueblo region. The clitf dwellings are of the excavated 

 type and exist in vast numbers, almost every southern escarpment 

 being honeycombed wnth them. Besides the identified pueblo ruins 

 named, several others of almost equal importance and hundreds of 

 minor ones are scattered over the district. The permanent reserva- 

 tion of this tract will preserve intact a fairly complete exhibit of 

 the i^rehistoric civilization of the Rio Grande Valley. This is now 

 assured, for it falls within the limits of the proposed Rio Jemez 

 Forest Reserve, and will in due time come under the custodianship 

 of the Bureau of Forestry if it does not become a national park. The 

 only collections that have been made from this district are in the 

 museum of the New Mexico Normal University at Las Vegas. 



11. On Kaniou Vigil Grant,6 Pri. L. : 



(Tewa; Tchire, bird; ge, house = house of the bird jieoplr: Spanish, 



Pajarito, a little bird.) 

 *Tchirege. (Platen.) 

 Cliff dwellings of Pajarito Canyon. 

 Navakwi. 

 Numerous large and small pueblos of Mesa del Pajarito. 



a I here restrict the name Pajarito Park to the district 10 miles long by 4 

 wide that is under withdrawal and consideration for a national park. (H. K. 

 72G9, SSth Cong.) As originally jtroposed and withdrawn; it was much more 

 extensive, and received its name from what was the central geographical feature 

 of the entire district, viz, Pajarito Canyon. This has since been found to 1k^ 

 largely on Ramon Vigil Grant, which was almost surrounded by the proposed 

 park. As the lines are now drawn, it creates Pajarito Park with the " Pajarito " 

 left out. 



?< This is the original I'ajarito Park. The value of tlie ruins is iipiireciatcd 

 by the owners and they are under ])roper custodianshi]). 



