“They Made Many Tunes”: Musical Instruments of the Pueblo Peoples of the Northern Rio Grande Valley

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Music Archaeology's Paradox: Contextual Dependency and Contextual Expressivity" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The distributions of different types of musical instruments across the American Southwest have been generally defined, but little work has been done to tie these data to studies of ethnogenesis, migration, and language groups. This paper examines archaeological, musicological, ethnographic, and historical data on instruments from archaeological sites from the Four Corners area and northern New Mexico in the context of what is known about the movement of different culture and language groups. It presents a more fine-grained analysis of instruments such as wooden and bone flutes, bone whistles, bone and shell tinklers, gourd rattles, clay and stone bells, and bone rasps as they relate to the language groups of the Pueblo peoples of the northern and middle Rio Grande Valley.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Music Archaeology's Paradox: Contextual Dependency and Contextual Expressivity

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Abstract Id(s): 33137