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A Ceremonial Cave on Bonita Creek, Arizona*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William W. Wasley
William W. Wasley*
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
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Abstract

A prehistoric ceremonial cache in the Arizona State Museum was found in 1957 by S. R. Claridge of Safford, Arizona. In 1958 additional objects were collected on a subsequent visit to the cave. The ceremonial objects include wooden flowers and cones, strings of miniature baskets, terraced wooden objects, a wooden pendant, cotton cloth, and bows and arrows. Apparently most of these objects had been stored in a Maverick Mountain Polychrome jar which had been covered with a smudged brownware bowl. The cache dates from the closing years of the 13th century or the early years of the 14th century. It probably belonged to the group of migrants from the Kayenta area who moved into Point of Pines about A.D. 1280 only to be driven from there about 20 or 30 years later.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , January 1962 , pp. 380 - 394
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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Footnotes

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A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, May 1, 1958, at Norman, Oklahoma.

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