Pueblo pottery excavated near Vernon, Arizona 

 Southwest Archaeological Expedition, 1957 



co-operation of residents in and near Vernon, Arizona, who permitted 

 the Museum scientists to conduct excavations on their ranches: F. 

 Chilcott, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Phipps, 

 Frank StradUng, and Earl Thode. Thanks are also given to neigh- 

 bors who were constantly helpful and friendly: Charles, Leon, and 

 Milton Gillespie, Leonard Penrod, and Eben Whiting. Their friend- 

 ship was of lasting benefit to the expedition. 



During the first months of the year Assistant Curator Rinaldo 

 prepared an analysis of the pottery and the stone artifacts collected 

 from more than a hundred sites in the vicinity of Vernon, Arizona, 

 during the summer of 1956 and prepared a field report based on this 

 analysis. This study provided a broad outline of the sequence of 

 cultures in the area and was helpful in selecting the sites to be exca- 

 vated during the 1957 season. He completed a report on the excava- 

 tion of the Foote Canyon site, a large fourteenth-century pueblo 

 excavated by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition in 1955, and 

 continued collaboration with Chief Curator Martin on a report of 

 the 1957 excavations. Dr. Martin is writing a book that will sum- 

 marize in nontechnical language the work of the Museum's fifteen 



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