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also continued among the Indians of western Pennsylvania, south- 

 western New York, Montana, and the Rio Grande Valley in New 

 Mexico. Some study was given to the problem of the Indian popula- 

 tion, and the special researches in Indian music were continued among 

 the Chippewa. 



A certain amount of work in the way of excavation and repair was 

 accomplished at Cliff Palace in southern Colorado, and a study was 

 made of the extensive ruins in the Navajo National Monument, 

 Arizona. 



In 191 1 field work was conducted by the bureau among the tribes 

 which composed the Creek Confederacy of the southern states ; the 



Fig. 32. — Removing pottery and other objects from a cemetery within the 

 older part of the ruins. The workmen are San Ildefonso Tewa Indians. 

 Photograph by Hodge. 



Tewa Indians of the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico ; the Winnebago 

 Indians of Wisconsin and Nebraska ; the Piegan, Blackfeet, Chey- 

 enne, and Menominee Indians of the Algonquian family ; the Chip- 

 pewa Indians, especially with reference to their music ; the Osage 

 Indians, now in Oklahoma, and the Iroquois in New York. 



In the fall of 191 1, Mr. F. W. Hodge, Ethnologist-in-charge of 

 the bureau, represented the Institution in an expedition to New 

 Mexico, conducted under the joint auspices of the bureau and the 

 School of American Archaeology at Santa Fe. Early in September 

 Mr. Hodge proceeded to El Morro, or Inscription Rock, in western 

 New Mexico, where, with the assistance of Mr. Jesse L. Nusbaum of 



