Ephemeral bounty : wickiups, trade goods, and the final years of the autonomous Ute / Curtis Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, Curtis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ute Indians--Dwellings--Colorado.

Ute Indians.

Indians of North America--Dwellings--Colorado.

Indians of North America.

Ute Indians--Colorado--Antiquities.

Archaeological surveying.

Antiquities.

Indians of North America--Dwellings.

Dwellings.

Colorado--Antiquities.

Colorado.

Archaeological surveying--Colorado.

Physical Description:

xvii, 202 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]

Summary:

The Colorado Wickiup Project is documenting ephemeral wooden features such as wickiups; tree-platforms, and horse corrals that remain scattered throughout the mesas, canyons, and mountains of the state. Many date from after the arrival of European newcomers who brought with them a bounty of new things-horses, metal knives and axes, guns, and brightly colored glass beads-which were readily adopted by the Utes. The Project is unique in using the techniques of metal detection, historic trade ware analysis, and tree-ring dating of metal ax-cut wickiup poles to distinguish the Ute sites from historic Euro-American ones. Through this analysis, researchers have demonstrated that not all Utes left Colorado for the reservations in Utah during the "final removal" in 1881, as has been generally believed. A significant number remained on their homelands well into the early decades of the twentieth century, building brush shelters and living much as they had for generations, but with new tools and weapons. Ephemeral Bounty presents the results of this archaeological research and its important findings on the protohistoric and historic Ute Indians of Colorado. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Colorado Wickiup Project: investigation of the rarest and most fragile of Native American sites

A safer world in woods embraced: Ute origins and culture history

Ephemeral bounty: the golden years of the protohistoric era

Gimme shelter: aboriginal wooden features

Field methodology for expedient wooden feature sites

Dating aboriginal wooden features

The Decker Big Tank Wickiup Village

The Pisgah Wickiup Village

The Ute Hunters' Camp

Disappointment Draw Lodge

Musick Lodge

The Tea House Wickiup

Future directions and proposed research

Epilogue

Appendix A. Tree-ring dating results from the Colorado Wickiup Project

Appendix B. The aboriginal wooden feature component form: samples of blank and filled-out forms

Appendix C. Quantifiable aspects of the Colorado Wickiup Project's wooden features

Appendix D. Consultation with Ute tribal members at the Tea House Wickiup.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189- 196) and index.

ISBN:

9781607814672

1607814676

OCLC:

930462956