Kinishba Ruins is a 600-room Mogollon great house archaeological site in eastern Arizona and is administered by the White Mountain Apache Tribe. It is located on the present-day Fort Apache Indian Reservation, in the Apache community of Canyon Day. As it demonstrates a combination of both Mogollon and Ancestral Puebloan cultural traits, archaeologists consider it part of the historical lineage of both the Hopi and Zuni cultures. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Kinishba Ruins
A large Kinishba bowl held by Prof. Byron Cummings, who excavated the ruins in the 1930s. Photo shows other pottery collected by Cummings at Kinishba or nearby. Circa 1940s photo by Arizona State Museum.
Mogollon culture is an archaeological culture of Native American peoples from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, Northern Sonora and Chihuahua, and Western Texas. The northern part of this region is Oasisamerica, while the southern span of the Mogollon culture is known as Aridoamerica.
The rock wall of the canyon, the Cueva de las Ventanas cliff-dwelling is located left of center above a debris-covered cone.
Macaw Pens at Paquimé, Chihuahua
Man and crane, Mangas-Mimbres pot, c. 1000 CE, showing figure-ground reversal
Kinishba Ruins near Fort Apache, Arizona
