Chapter I: Front Matter

FRIJOLES
A Hidden Valley in the New World

_by_

J. W. Hendron

_Edited by_
DOROTHY THOMAS

_Drawings by_
JOCELYN TAYLOR

THE RYDAL PRESS, INC., SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
1946

_Copyright, 1946, by J. W. Hendron
All rights reserved.
Manufactured by The Rydal Press, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A._

FRIJOLES,
A Hidden Valley in the New World

THE POTSHERD

To a layman like me it helps a lot
To know a potsherd is just a piece of broken pot;
To know, behind the talk of color, shade, design,
It helped a hungry aborigine to dine;
To see in this broken bit of clay
A brown-skinned baby, clumsy at his play
Cuffed by a weary mother, and whimpering so
Because he broke a dish a thousand years ago!
Hugh M. Miller

By special permission of
_New Mexico Magazine_.
Printed June, 1936.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

My grateful acknowledgements are due to Dr. H. P. Mera and Mr. Stanley Stubbs of the Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, for their expert advice and criticism in their respective fields; Dr. Leslie Spier, Professor of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, for his helpful suggestions; the late Professor Lansing B. Bloom, Professor of History, University of New Mexico, for helpful information on history; Mrs. Evelyn C. Frey, Bandelier National Monument; Mrs. M. H. Sharp, for the many hours she gave to patient listening and constructive suggestion; Mr. Wayne Mauzy, Museum of New Mexico, for permission to use photographs and cuts; Mr. Natt Dodge, Region Three Office, National Park Service, for his helpful suggestions and time spent in obtaining cuts; my Mother, Mrs. J. H. Hendron, for her encouragement and assistance; and to all others who rendered services.

_For my wife_
“MISSIE”
who made this book possible by her patient listening and constructive
criticism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Some Twenty Years Ago 1
II. The Pueblo Indian Meets The White Man 6
III. Tyuonyi 18
IV. Building In The Great Period 32
V. Living In The Great Period 55
VI. Cliff Dwellers Again 66
VII. The Spanish Era 76
VIII. Present Times 79
Source Material 83
Glossary 85
Index 90