24 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



form and ornament, prepared for the sixth annual report, were com. 

 pleted and proofs were read. During the year work was begun upon a 

 review of the ceramic art of Mexico. A special paper, with 20 illus- 

 trations, upon a remarkable family of spurious antiquities belong- 

 ing to that country, was prepared and turned over to the Smithsonian 

 Institution for publication. In addition, a preliminary study of the 

 prehistoric textile fabrics of Peru was begun, and a short-paper, with 

 numerous illustrations, was written. 



Mr. Holmes has general charge of the miscellaneous archseologic and 

 ethnologic collections of the Bureau, and reports that Dr. Cyrus Thomas, 

 Mr. James Stevenson, and other authorized agents of the Bureau have 

 obtained collections of articles from the mounds of the Mississippi 

 Valley and from the ruins of the Pueblo country. A number of inter- 

 esting articles have also been acquired by donation. Capt. J. G. 

 Bourke, of the U. S. Army, presented a series of vases and other 

 ceremonial objects obtained from cliff dwellings and caves in the 

 Pueblo country; Mr. J. B. Stearns, of Short Hills, made a few addi- 

 tions to his already valuable donations of relics from the ancient graves 

 of Chiriqui, Colombia; and Mr. J. N. Macomb presented a number of 

 fragments of earthenware from Graham County, N. C. Some im[)ortant 

 accessions have been made by purchase. A large collection of pot- 

 tery, textile fabrics, and other articles from the graves of Peru was 

 obtained from Mr. William E. Curtis ; a series of ancient and modern 

 vessels of clay and numerous articles of other classes from Chihuahua, 

 Mexico, were acquired through the agency of Dr. E. Palmer; a small 

 set of handsome vases of the ancient white ware of New Mexico was 

 acquired by purchase from Mr. C. M. Landon, of Lawrence, Kans., and 

 several handsome vases from various parts of Mexico were obtained 

 from Dr. Eugene Boban. 



As in former years, Mr. Holmes has superintended the preparation 

 of drawings and engravings for the Bureau publications. The number 

 of illustrations prepared during the year amounted to 650. 



During the fiscal year Mr. Victor Mindelefif has been engaged in the 

 preparation of a report on the architecture of the Tusayan and Cibola 

 groups of pueblos, which is nearly ready for publication. This report 

 will contain a description of the topograj^hy and climate Of the region, 

 in illustration of the influence of environment upon the development of 

 the pueblo type of architecture. It will also contain a traditionary ac- 

 count of the Tusayan pueblos and of their separate clans or phratries. 

 A description in detail of the Tusayan group will treat of the relative 

 position of the villages and such ruins as are connected traditionally or 

 historically with them. A comparative study is also made between the 

 Tusayan and Cibola groups and between them and certain well pre- 

 served ruins in regard to constructive details, by which means the com- 

 paratively advanced type of the modern pueblo architecture is clearly 

 established. Maps of the groups discussed and of the topography of 



