32 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1911. 



not been possible to supply. To meet this need in part, the Senate, on May 12, 

 adopted a concurrent resolution authorizing the reprinting of the entire hand- 

 book, and at the close of the fiscal year the resolution was under consideration 

 by the Committee on Printing of the House of Representatives. The Superin- 

 tendent of Documents has likewise been in receipt of many orders for the work, 

 necessitating the reprinting of part 1 some months after its appearance, and 

 about the close of the fiscal year anotber reprint of this part was contemplated. 

 Much material for incorporation in a revised edition for future publication was 

 prepared during the year, but lack of funds necessary for the employment of 

 special assistants prevented tbe prosecution of this work as fully as was desired. 



The bureau has been interested in and has conducted archeological explora- 

 tions in the Pueblo region of New Mexico and Arizona for many years. Since 

 the establishment of the School of American Archaeology in 1907, following the 

 revival of interest in American archeology, by the Archaeological Institute of 

 America, that body likewise commenced systematic work in the archeology of 

 that great region. In order to avoid duplication of effort, arrangements were 

 made between the bureau and the school for conducting archeological investiga- 

 tions in cooperation, the expense of the field work to be borne equally, a moiety 

 of the collections of the artifacts and all the skeletal remains to become the 

 property of the National Museum, and the bureau to have the privilege of the 

 publication of all scientific results. 



Active work under this joint arrangement was commenced in the Rito de los 

 Frijoles, northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in July, 1910, work having 

 already been initiated there during the previous summer by the school inde- 

 pendently, under the directorship of Dr. Edgar L. Hewett. In August, 1910, 

 Mr. Hodge visited New Mexico for the purpose of participating in the work on 

 the part of tbe bureau, and remained in the field for a month. 



The great prehistoric site in the Rito de los Frijoles is characterized by an 

 immense circular many-celled pueblo ruin, most of the stone walls of which 

 are still standing to a height of several feet, and a series of cavate dwellings 

 hewn in the soft tufa throughout several hundred yards of the northern wall 

 of the canyon. Accompanying the great community ruin and also the cavate 

 dwellings are underground kivas, or ceremonial chambers. In front of the 

 cavate lodges were originally structures of masonry built against the cliff and 

 forming front rooms, but practically the only remains of these are the founda- 

 tion walls and the rafter holes in the cliff face. The debris covering these 

 structures has been largely cleared away and the foundations exposed, and the 

 walls of about two-thirds of the great pueblo structure in the valley have been 

 bared by excavation. At the western extremity of the canyon, far up in the 

 northern wall, is a natural cavern, known as Ceremonial Cave, in which are a 

 large kiva, remarkably well preserved, and other interesting remains of aborig- 

 inal occupancy. This great archeological site in the Rito de los Frijoles is 

 important to the elucidation of the problem of the early distribution of the 

 Pueblos of the Rio Grande Valley, and there is reason to believe that when 

 the researches are completed much light will be shed thereon. There is a 

 paucity of artifacts in the habitations uncovered, aside from stone implements, 

 of which large numbers have been found. 



At the close of the work in the Rito de los Frijoles the joint expedition pro- 

 ceeded to the valley of the Jemez River, near tbe Hot Springs, where a week 

 was spent in excavating the cemetery of the old Jemez village of Giusiwa. 

 About 30 burials were disinterred here, and a few accompaniments of pottery 

 vessels and other artifacts were recovered; but in the main the deposits had 

 been completely destroyed by aboriginal disturbance, caused in part by cover- 

 ing the burials with heavy stones and partly by displacing the skeletons pre- 



