THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



MAP SHOWING THE ROUTES FOLLOWED BY DR. HRDLICKA IN HIS INVESTIGATIONS 

 AMONG THE INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. 



All these expeditions, whose main object was the acquisition 

 of a knowledge of the physical features of the present as well as 

 of the ancient Indian populations over the territory covered 

 before the advent of whites by the ClifE-Dwellers, Pueblos and 

 branches of the Nahuas (among which are the Aztecs), were 

 carried on by Dr. Hrdhcka, under the supervision of Prof. F. W. 

 Putnam, for the American Museum, the means being very gener- 

 ously furnished by Mr. Fred. E. Hyde, Jr. 



The territory covered by the investigations is the most ex- 

 tensive ever covered in similar work by one observer. It extends 



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