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Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection
~ From Old Main to the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, 1966
This pottery was from the Rio Grande Mesa
Collection belonging to Bethany College Professor Johan August Udden displayed in the Bethany College Museum
in
Old Main
c1902
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Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection
~ From Old Main to the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, 1966
This pottery was from the Rio Grande Mesa
Collection belonging to Bethany College Professor Johan August Udden displayed in the Bethany College Museum
in
Old Main
c1902
With the Bethany College Museum collections move, the Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection and where it was relocated are described by Dr. Lungstrom in his 1990 book "History of Natural Science and Mathematics at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas" on page 25.
"The next large archaeological find was secured from ancient cliff dwellings in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona, and consisted of 140 items of ancient pottery and 100 or more articles of more recent pottery. This has been stored in the Sandzén Memorial Art Gallery, and recently much of it has been put on display in the newly-build addition of the College library.
"The next large archaeological find was secured from ancient cliff dwellings in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona, and consisted of 140 items of ancient pottery and 100 or more articles of more recent pottery. This has been stored in the Sandzén Memorial Art Gallery, and recently much of it has been put on display in the newly-build addition of the College library.
Source: "FORGET-ME-NOT," The Annual of Bethany College, 1902
"...The Cliff Dwellers were skilled in the art of making pottery. Their burial mounds contain specimens of beautiful pottery, many of which still remain unbroken.
"It is from these people that Bethany has obtained its splendid collection of ancient pottery and stone implements. There are in the Museum about one hundred and fifty (150) specimens of ancient pottery from many different ruins."
"The Pueblo Indians of today are suppose to be the descendants of the Cliff Dwellers."
--- From the 1902 Forget-Me-Not, The Collection of Ancient and Modern Pottery
"It is from these people that Bethany has obtained its splendid collection of ancient pottery and stone implements. There are in the Museum about one hundred and fifty (150) specimens of ancient pottery from many different ruins."
"The Pueblo Indians of today are suppose to be the descendants of the Cliff Dwellers."
--- From the 1902 Forget-Me-Not, The Collection of Ancient and Modern Pottery
Source: "FORGET-ME-NOT," The Annual of Bethany College, 1902
Article from the 1902 Forget - Me - Not,
written by
Bethany College
Founder President Rev. Dr. Carl Aaron Swensson
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