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1S,S7-'.S8, by Sylvester liaxter (Salem, 1S«8). In addition to all this lie lias had the advantape of 

 a personal knowledge of the southwestern eountry, its anticjuities and its peojde, extending over 

 a period of t<>n years. He has had an equally long intimate personal ac(|Uaintanee with the 

 director of the Ilemenway Expedition. In the autumn of 1.S.S7 he had the rare good fortune to 

 si)end about a month with Mr. Cushing at Camp Ilemenway, in the Salado Valley, while the cxea- 

 \ at ions at Los Muertos were being carried on. 



lie might, therefor*', had he so desired, have made of tbis introduction a more extensive and 

 pretentious essay. This is intended, however, not as a contributiitn to American archa-ology, but 

 merely for the convenience of the anthropologist who may desire to know something of the peoi»le 

 to the description of whose osseous remains this work is (chiefly devoted. The author has intro- 

 duced only some of the more easily explained discoveries of the expedition, and he has made many 

 statements without setting forth .all the facts and arguments on w hich they are based. The reader 

 must take some things for granted until Mr. Cushing's linal report appears. In referring to the 

 early Spanish writers and travelers the writer has been obliged to omit the proper bibliographical 

 notes, for the reason that he had not access to their books at the time of writing. 



In studying the crania and other bones described in the following pages, and in preparing this 

 report, I must acknowledge my great indebtedness to the following gentlemen of the staff' of the 

 Army Medical Museum: To Dr. Jacob L. Wortman (who spent many months in the field <:oIIecting 

 and preserving the bones), for assistance in preparing the sections on the teeth and hyoid bone; 

 to Dr. D. S. Lamb, for assistance in preparing the section on the olecranon perforation; to Mr. 

 Porter Tracy, for his labor in taking measurements and liis help in many other ways, and to Dr. J. 

 C. McConnell, for preparing the illustrations. 



"VYAsniNGTON Matthews, 



FoET WiNGATE, NEW MEXICO, Surgcoii, U. S. Army. 



Sq)te»iher 1, 1890. 

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