Mogollonn.adj.

1855 Rep. Indian Affairs 1854 (U.S.) 172 The Gila Apaches are subdivided into four separate bands, viz: Coyoteros, Mogagones [1856 Mogoyones], Tontos, and the Mlembrenos.

1859 S. Mowry Geogr. & Resources Arizona & Sonora 16 The Apaches..are best classified under their modern names. The Mescaleros..Mogollones, Chir=aca=huis, Coyeteros..and the Tontos.

1874 F. A. Walker Indian Question 233 The Mimbres and Mogollons..are warlike, and have for years been generally unfriendly to the government.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 463/2 The Chiricahua band..,together with 500 Mimbreños, Mogollones, and Mescaleros, were assigned, about 1870, to the Ojo Caliente reserve, New Mexico.

1937 Southwestern Lore Sept. 30 All of the pottery produced by the Hohokam people was fired in an oxidizing atmosphere, but so also was the early pottery manufactured by the Mogollones.

1983 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians X. 418/1 In 1874 Indian Agent Thomas J. Jeffords enumerated the Apaches on the temporary Chiricahua reservation at Sulphur Springs in three groups: Mimbres, Mogollon, and Coyotero; Cochise's band; and Southern Chiricahuas.

1936 E. W. Haury Mogollon Culture of Southwest. New Mexico 118 No sure group can be identified as the living remnants of the Mogollon.

1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 806 Mogollon is much less distinctive and decisive than Anasazi and Hohokam, it faded away earlier, and some authorities still look upon it as only a local variant of Anasazi, or a temporary and regional blend of that and Hohokam.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 204/1 The Mogollon occupied the eastern half of that old region, which is in part at least a mountainous country, lying east of the San Pedro river in Arizona.

1974 J. D. Jennings in J. Billard World of Amer. Indian 56 By 300 b.c. the Tularosa people were making a characteristic brown pottery and living in pit-house villages. From these beginnings a culture called the Mogollon evolved—and probably spread northward to trigger what many call the zenith of southwestern traditions, the Anasazi.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxx. 642 The Coyotero, White Mountain and Mogollon Apaches have never had a case of it [sc. venereal disease].

1889 Overland Monthly Sept. 311 These bounds comprise 3,950 square miles, or 2,528,000 acres, occupied by something like 5,000 Indians belonging to the Axarapai, Chilion, Chiricahua, Coyoteras, Miembre, Mogollon, Mojaves, Pinal, Tonto, and Yuma–Apache tribes.

1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 388/1 Various Chiricahua groups, generally accompanied by some families of Mogollon, Mimbres, and Coyotero in-laws.

1983 R. Roessel in Handbk. N. Amer. Indians X. 508/1 Dodge..was killed by a party of Mogollon and Coyotero Apaches.

1934 W. Gladwin & H. S. Gladwin Method for Designation of Cultures 30 Reports on the entire series of the Mogollon and Chihuahua Branches of the Playas Stem are now in preparation.

1937 Southwestern Lore Dec. 55 In the Mogollon and Pueblo cultures the walls of vessels were thinned by removing excess clay with a scaper.

1939 F. H. H. Roberts Archeol. Remains Whitewater District E. Arizona i. 15 The Mogollon pattern seems to center in the San Francisco and Mimbres River valleys in south-western New Mexico.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 204/1 The relationship to the San Pedro material is reflected particularly in stone implements found in the earliest Mogollon sites.

1989 National Geographic Mar. 393/1 In New Mexico virtually every site of the Mimbres—a people of the Mogollon culture—has been wrecked by looters seeking their delicately painted black-on-white bowls.