Nutria Zuni Indian Farming Pueblo Detached House New Mexico 1891 Original Print

125 year old original print from Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-87, Washington Government Printing Office 1891

A STUDY OF PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE: TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA. BY VICTOR MINDELEFF.

"Nutria is the smallest of the three farming pueblos of Zuñi, and is located about 23 miles by trail northeast from Zuñi at the head of Nutria valley. The water supply at this point is abundant, and furnishes a running stream largely utilized in irrigating fields in the vicinity. Most of the village is compactly arranged, as may be seen from the plan plate LXVII  but a few small clusters, of late construction, containing two or three rooms each, are situated toward the east at quite a distance from the principal group. It is now occupied solely as a farming pueblo during the planting and harvesting season. The outline of this small pueblo differs greatly from those of most of the Cibolan villages. The village plate LXVIII, particularly in its northernmost cluster, somewhat approximates the form of the ancient pueblo of Kin-tiel plate LXIII, and has apparently been built on the remains of an older village of somewhat corresponding form, as indicated by its curved outer wall. Fragments of carefully constructed masonry of the ancient type, contrasting noticeably with the surrounding modern construction, afford additional evidence of this. The ancient village must have been provided originally with ceremonial rooms or kivas, but no traces of such rooms are now to be found."

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