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Corn Goddesses or Phalli?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ripley P. Bullen
Ripley P. Bullen*
Affiliation:
Andover, Massachusetts
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While attending the 1941 summer field session of the University of New Mexico at Chaco Canyon, the author hired four Navahos and partially excavated a small pueblo site on the talus about one-third of a mile up the valley from Chetro Ketl and on the same side of the wash. A small unit of at least four rooms and two kivas of middle Pueblo III time was indicated.

Standing upright on the bottom of the ventilator opening in one of the kivas was found a sandstone phallus measuring 9J inches in height. It was oval in cross-section and measured 8X7 inches at the base. The bottom was irregular, but the rest had been carefully carved and smoothed to represent most realistically the end of a phallus when erect. The specimen is now at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

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American Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , April 1944 , pp. 448 - 449
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1944

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