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CamBripGr, MassacuusettTs, JUNE 20, 1940 Voi. 8, No. 8 
NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF PLANTS 
FROM THE HOPI INDIAN REGION OF 
ARIZONA MADE BY J.G.OWENS IN 1891 
BY 
Pau. A. VESTAL 
RECENTLY, in the Botanical Museum of Harvard 
University, I came upon a collection of plants made by 
the Hemenway Expedition in Arizona. There is no in- 
dication as to who made the collection or who identified 
the plants. Exact locations are not mentioned, but In- 
dian names are given as well as the use of the plants. 
Upon inquiring at the Peabody Museum’, it was as- 
certained that the Indian names are Hopi and that there 
were several expeditions bearing the name ‘‘Hemenway 
Expedition.’’ For the most part the collections of the 
Hemenway Expeditions were ethnological and archeo- 
logical in nature. The principal expeditions financed by 
Mrs. Mary Hemenway, of which there is material in the 
Peabody Museum, were made in 1887 and 1888. 
In “The Hopi Journal of Alexander M. Stephen,”’ 
edited by Elsie Clews Parsons (4), it is recorded that 
‘“‘when J. Walter Fewkes began to study the Hopi as 
director of the Hemenway expedition, in 1890, he en- 
'T wish to express my sincere thanks to Mr. Donald Scott, Director, 
Mr. J.O. Brew and Associate Professor Clyde Kluckhohn of the Pea- 
body Museum of Harvard University for their aid in determining the 
Indian tribe, obtaining information about the Hemenway Expedition 
and in suggesting early literature relating to Hopi ethnobotany. 
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