The site known as Pine Lawn Camp is actually a pithouse located on the same little mesa just west of the buildings that comprised camp headquarters for the Chicago Natural History Museum expeditions to the Southwest from 1939 to 1955. Rinaldo (n.d.: 31) notes that the pithouse "was probably part of the same village as the pithouse situated three meters northeast of Three Pines Pueblo" (Rinaldo n.d.: 31). It was excavated in 1949 as part of a determined effort to find whether kivas were to be found in association with pueblos of the Reserve Phase (Rinaldo n.d.: 30).
EXCAVATION RECORDS
The only excavation record available for Pine Lawn Camp is a photograph in Album 35M (Neg. No. 92845) showing "Pithouse A, [Pine Lawn] Camp Site, showing post in center and pit to right." There are notes regarding the search for a suitable field camp in Pine Lawn, but these do not contain any archaeological data regarding the Pine Lawn Camp Site (Martin Archives Folder A-1148).
NATURE AND INTEGRITY OF THE COLLECTION
The Field Museum curates 177 sherds from Pithouse A at Pine Lawn Camp (catalog numbers 314478 - 314480). Rinaldo (n.d.: 30) notes that a total of 1597 sherds (1044 Alma Plain, 35 Alma Rough, and 518 San Francisco Red, Saliz variety) were recovered from Pithouse A. The collection on the shelves therefore represents an 11% sample of what was excavated. It is not clear whether that sample is arbitrary, random, or systematic.
REFERENCES
Rinaldo n.d. "Notes on Minor Excavations in the Reserve Area, West Central New
Mexico." Manuscript on file in the Department of Anthropology at the Field
Museum of Natural History. Dates post-1955.
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