Kiowa County Public Library District

Examines myths connected to the figure of Spider Woman and her equivalent in Keresan Pueblo, Hopi, and Navajo mythologies,and includes interpretations of rock images depicting these myths.

An overview of ancient Southwest history examines the hunting societies of the paleo-Indians, the rise of the great agricultural societies of the Anasazi, and the eventual decline of the Chaco culture.

Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.