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Doctor Fewkes was possessed of a genial and confiding nature and 

 an effervescent enthusiasm which drew people to him and made them 

 readily communicative of any information they happened to have 

 regarding new types of ruins, unique pottery, or mounds which had 

 escaped scientific eyes, so that, from the quantity point of view, he 

 was almost uniformly successful in his field expeditions. And in 

 this way he made many openings for later workers, even though he 

 did not exploit all the possibilities of an undertaking. For he was 

 interested in variety of material, especially material of a novel char- 

 acter, rather than in associations of materials, and the extension of 

 his work interfered with its intensiveness. However, his unaffected 

 pleasure in a new variety of artifact or an exceptional pottery design 

 was something that the average man could understand and through 

 his talks to tourists and in the lecture hall, and through press inter- 

 views, he interested hundreds to whom a more rigorous student might 

 have spoken in vain. In this way he created a " Pueblo conscious- 

 ness " which drew other investigators to the field and provided 

 popular support for their work, performing a similar service to that 

 of Gushing at an earlier date on the side of ethnology. Thus the 

 title " dean of American archeology " which, with advancing years, 

 some of his admirers came to apply to him was not inappropriate. 

 It was a term which his charm of manner set off to most excellent 

 advantage, and he had a devoted circle of friends who will feel that 

 his going has removed something peculiarly warm and winning from 

 their lives.. 



