ABSTRACT
The Pueblo Indians of the South-West are one of the most widely known primitive peoples in Western civilization. They live in the midst of America, within easy reach of any transcontinental traveller. The Pueblo culture flourished greatly after it had settled upon its arid plateau. It had brought with it the bow and arrow, knowledge of stone architecture, and a diversified agriculture. The peak of Pueblo civilization had been reached and passed before the Spanish adventurers came searching for cities of gold. Pueblo culture, therefore, has a long homogeneous history behind it, and we have special need of this knowledge of it because the cultural life of these peoples is so at variance with that of the rest of North America. The Pueblos are a ceremonial people. But that is not the essential fashion in which they are set off from the other peoples of North America and Mexico.
