Publication Date

7-3-1937

Abstract

The Pueblo group of the southwest has probably been given more study than any other culture group of North America. Both functional and historical studies have been made, and faint attempts set forth, to deduce the origin of the modern Pueblo culture, as a whole, from the prehistoric Pueblo culture studied by archaeologists. Theories regarding this origin have varied somewhat during the last ten years, but relatively little attempt has been made to check detailed archaeological or ethnological material of any of the Pueblo groups with data on other groups outside the area. It would seem that as far as the available data permit, such comparisons on the basis of physical anthropology, linguistics, and social and religious structure of the Pueblo groups, not of the Pueblo culture taken as a whole, should yield some indication of the genealogical relationship or lack of relationship of these groups with outside peoples, these indications later to be checked by archaeological investigation wherever possible.

Keywords

Ethnology, Tewa, Hopi, Keresan, Pawnee, Omaha, Crow

Document Type

Thesis

Language

English

Degree Name

Anthropology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Anthropology

First Committee Member (Chair)

Florence May Hawley

Second Committee Member

Donald Dilworth Brand

Third Committee Member

Francis Monroe Kercheville

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