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-Frances E.Totty
Bill Hamlett
61_ app
Indian Vellege
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Mpy5,I938
MAY 9 isia 8
Some time ago I went out Ed Aults place,three miles up the river on thi
right from Gila about thirty miles from Silve City to take several
plows. hen I arrived a t the place I received one of the biggest surprises
in my life.Ed had a fellow breaking up a place for a garden, and that place
was nothing more thfn en old Indian Village. I have quiet a collection of
Indian MetfAts? and one and the only one yard in this counts y made up of
Indian relics that are made of stone.I have spent many years collecting these
stones in my yard, but the collection that Ed Ault was allowing to be
destroyed was one of the most unusual collections that I eve r witnessed.
Anything that caught the fancy of the teamster or kr.hult was salvaged,
but otnerwise the plow was allowed to just pass over the articles whether it
be pottery or what not.Mr. Ault saved quit a few things and the fellow
that did the plowing saved two truck loads of articles ,and sent them back
to Tulsa ,Oklahoma.
TIle articles that were plowed up were in an unusual good state of
preservation especially considering that a plow had passed over them. One
artible that attracted my attention wae a large bowl that contained some
balls, this was by all indicationd a g, me of some kind I have inquired
around and another such a piece has never been foend.The bells in the
bowl were stripped one color of strips running around the ball one way,
and another col running another thereby the lines making squres.There
are many pit dwellings in this district, but this is one village tir,at the
pottery wee in different colors and seemed to be made by diffeyent methods.
The place should have been made a study of.as webl as the relics saved
instead they were ruined, and most of them destroyed, There were many skeltons
in the villoge;.and if these were buried bodies or the place was destroyed
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by fire pr so_le otwls means cannot be ascertained now for there wasn't
any chfe ten %hen the houses rere operiedtbut tne wall were nIcely
latC„and many still i place after Iwft t cre,a tin d that noticed
that the corners were squLre.How these people ..ade ioarfect squares
is amazing. :;het ere their totils? ere Lie civilized: 1 hope time
will r,oveP1 wore of these peoole thnt we find r-lics of every day.