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script. The latter is called "The Ruins at Kiatutlihiiiiia,"' the Zufii 

 Indian name for the locality. 



Dorlor Koherts assisted Mr. Neil M. Judd of the Unitetl States 

 National Museum in cataloguing? the collections made along the 

 l*i('di-a Kivor in southwestern Colorado in the summer of li)28. 

 lliustiated lectures on the archeology of the Southwest were ileliv- 

 ered before a number of Washington organizations, and information 

 on the archeology of the New World was suj)|)lied in response to 

 many letters of incpiiry. 



On May 12, IDJJO, Doctor lloberts left Washington for Denver, 

 (^olo.. where one week was spent in studying new accessions in the 

 Colorado State Museum and (he City Museum of Denver. 



I-^eaving Denver, Doctor Roberts proceeded to Gallup, N. Mex., 

 and from there to the Zufii Indian Reservation. One week was 

 devoted to an archeological reconnaissance of the Zuni area. As a 

 result of this a small pueblo ruin was chosen as the scene for inten- 

 sive investigations, and under a permit from the Department of 

 the Interior excavations were started. By July 1 a burial mound 

 containing 40 interments had been investigated and 16 rooms and 

 2 kivas or ceremonial chambers in the pueblo had been cleared of 

 their accumulated debris. In addition to much valuable information, 

 150 specimens, including pottery and other art facts, had been 

 secured. 



Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was engaged in routine office 

 work from July 1, 1029, to May 7, 1930, and from the latter date 

 until the close of the fiscal year he was engaged in field service in 

 Canada and very briefly in New York State. 



Mr. Hewitt devoted much careful research among various docu- 

 ments to ascertain, if possible, the symbolic significance of white 

 and purple wampum beads, respectively, and also when these are 

 mi.xed in definite proportions and arrangement on strings or belts; 

 but much reading of documents which might bear on the question 

 was comparatively barren of any satisfactory results. He was led 

 to this study because, in modern time at least, strings of wampum 

 function ami have functioned quite prominently in the public trans- 

 actions of the Council of the League of the Iroquois. Wampum 

 strings are an essential accompaniment in the use of the ritual of 

 the Requickening Address of the Council of Condolence and Instal- 

 lation of the League. 



Mr. Hewitt also transliterated an Ottawa mythic text from the 

 common missionary alpliabet into that of the Powell phonetic system 

 designed for the use of c<dlal)orators of the bureau. 



He also typed in native Mohawk text the chanted ritual, the 

 Eulogy of the Founders of the League, as intoned by ihc Father 



