ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY 
Ruins of Balcony House, partially restored, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 
Domesticated wild turkeys were also 
allowed to run loose about the villages, 
and eagles, macaws, and other birds 
were kept in cages for use in connection 
with ceremonies. The Pueblos now have 
all the domestic animals of the Mexi¬ 
cans and keep and work them much as 
the Mexicans do. 
Large volumes can be written on 
Pueblo pottery, ancient and modern. 
The art is almost dead at some of the 
villages, but at others is still flourishing 
to a surprising extent, and the surviv¬ 
ing Indians are still able to interpret 
the meaning of many of the modern 
and some of the prehistoric designs. 
Blanket weaving is practically a lost 
art at the eastern pueblos, but all the 
Pueblos in ancient times made cotton 
blankets and other woven articles of as 
good workmanship as those of the early 
Navaho; in fact, it seems plausible that 
the Navaho adopted the art of blanket 
weaving from the Pueblos at an early 
date. As already said, the material cul¬ 
ture of the Pueblo Indian is unusually 
rich and varied. 
It is much easier to write of the soci¬ 
ology and religion of one Pueblo or of 
one group of Pueblos than of the Pue¬ 
blos as a whole. One finds everywhere a 
highly organized clan system which is 
interwoven intricately with the relig¬ 
ious organization. Religious fraterni¬ 
ties are numerous, and their medicine 
practices and ceremonies are kept secret 
not only from Mexicans and Americans 
but also from the Indians of the same 
village who are not members. Although 
women belong to some of the fraterni- 
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