Digging in the Southwest / by Ann Axtell Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Ann Axtell, 1900-1945, author.

Contributor:

Doubleday, Doran & Company, publisher.

Country Life Press, printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morris, Ann Axtell, 1900-1945.

Morris, Ann Axtell.

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Pueblo Indians--Antiquities.

Pueblo Indians.

Southwest, New--Antiquities.

Southwest, New.

Southwest, New--Description and travel.

Women archaeologists--Southwest, New--Biography.

Women archaeologists.

Antiquities.

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Travel.

New Southwest.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, [2], 301, [1] pages, [30] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

Garden City, N.Y., U.S.A. : Printed at the Country Life Press.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1934.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Why is archeology?

2. My prelude to archeology

3. Southwestern road song

4. Eight little cultures and how they grew

5. On the banks of the Eduardo

6. How an archaeologist goes about his work

7. Time, the backbone of archeology

8. Mummies and glue

9. Excavating Mummy Cave

10. Navajo on a cost-plus basis

11. Irrepressible Navajo

12. Tseahatso, the grandfather of caves

13. Antelope Cave entertains an airplane

14. Big game hunting in the Southwest

15. Fingerprints of the Sun

16. America was discovered 10,000 years ago

17. Lost city of the Lukachukais.

Notes:

Illustrated endpapers.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on verso of front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

1315575626