Scientist Emil O. Deere
Cliff Dwellers' Pottery Collection
From the Rio Grande Mesa
Collection belonging to Bethany College Professor Johan August Udden displayed in the
Bethany College Museum
c1902

"...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."

Article from the 1902 Forget - Me - Not, most likely written by Bethany College Professor Museum Curator John Eric Welin
or
Founder President Dr. Rev. Carl Aaron Swensson.