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Item Title
Pueblo Del Arroyo, Chaco Canyon, San Juan County, NM
Location
Chaco+Canyon, NM
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS NM-163
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-31).
Building/structure dates:
1065 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1923 subsequent work
Photo NM-163-1 was removed & sent as an addendum to HABS No. NM-30 after recognition that it was part of the wrong record. (12/16/03, JLB)
Significance: Pueblo del Arroyo is located - as its name implies - on the edge of the Chaco Wash. This site was one of the major Chacoan towns and shares the characteristics of other communal enterprises of this type. The fundamental concept is one of relatively regular formality in plan developed symmetrically on a single axis. Compact massing resulted in a mult-tiered structure, rising in this case to 4 stories, stepped back from internal open spaces and the central plaza...
Subjects
Indians Of North AmericaPueblos
Related Names
Ruppert, Karl
National Geographic Society
Judd, Neil M.
Vivian, Gordon R.
Duran, James G., Field Team
Rieder, Morgan, Delineator
Balachowski, Joseph D., Delineator
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
2. VIEW (SOUTHWEST) DOWN INTO KIVA
3. PERSPECTIVE VIEW (NORTHEAST) SHOWING A SERIES OF KIVAS
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