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  ANNUAL, 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  ruin, 
  " 
  Megalithic 
  House," 
  was 
  not 
  completely 
  excavated, 
  but 
  all 
  the 
  

   others 
  were 
  repaired, 
  the 
  tops 
  of 
  the 
  walls 
  being 
  covered 
  with 
  cement 
  

   to 
  prevent 
  future 
  erosion. 
  

  

  An 
  important 
  collection 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  chief 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  the 
  

   summer's 
  work 
  contains 
  many 
  rare 
  and 
  unique 
  specimens, 
  an 
  account 
  

   of 
  which 
  will 
  later 
  be 
  published 
  in 
  a 
  report 
  on 
  the 
  excavations. 
  

  

  During 
  his 
  work 
  at 
  the 
  Mesa 
  Verde 
  the 
  chief 
  gave 
  camp-fire 
  

   talks 
  in 
  the 
  special 
  amphitheater 
  constructed 
  for 
  that 
  purpose 
  by 
  the 
  

   superintendent 
  of 
  the 
  park. 
  The 
  average 
  attendance 
  on 
  these 
  talks 
  

   was 
  about 
  40 
  each 
  evening, 
  and 
  at 
  times, 
  as 
  on 
  a 
  visit 
  of 
  a 
  convention 
  

   of 
  teachers, 
  there 
  were 
  150 
  listeners. 
  He 
  also 
  spent 
  considerable 
  time 
  

   daily 
  taking 
  parties 
  over 
  the 
  new 
  work 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  doing 
  in 
  the 
  

   neighborhood 
  of 
  Far 
  View 
  House. 
  

  

  Ever 
  since 
  1917 
  the 
  chief 
  has 
  been 
  attempting 
  to 
  have 
  the 
  sites 
  

   of 
  three 
  clusters 
  of 
  towers 
  in 
  Utah 
  withdrawn 
  from 
  private 
  owner- 
  

   ship 
  and 
  made 
  into 
  a 
  national 
  monument, 
  to 
  be 
  called 
  Hovenweep 
  

   National 
  Monument. 
  Various 
  circumstances 
  have 
  made 
  it 
  impos- 
  

   sible 
  to 
  bring 
  this 
  about. 
  During 
  the 
  past 
  summer, 
  however, 
  Mr. 
  

   Hatze, 
  a 
  Land 
  Office 
  surveyor, 
  determined 
  the 
  metes 
  and 
  bounds 
  

   of 
  these 
  three 
  clusters 
  and 
  later 
  Doctor 
  Fewkes 
  visited 
  them 
  in 
  order 
  

   to 
  determine 
  their 
  present 
  condition. 
  He 
  found 
  that 
  a 
  settler 
  had 
  

   filed 
  claims 
  on 
  the 
  neighboring 
  land, 
  the 
  adjoining 
  one-quarter 
  mile 
  

   section, 
  and 
  erected 
  his 
  cabin. 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  cabins 
  in 
  the 
  neighbor- 
  

   hood 
  have 
  stones 
  remarkably 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  towers 
  ; 
  in 
  other 
  words, 
  

   the 
  necessity 
  for 
  immediate 
  action, 
  if 
  these 
  towers 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  pre- 
  

   served 
  for 
  posterity, 
  is 
  apparent, 
  and 
  the 
  land 
  on 
  which 
  they 
  are 
  

   situated 
  should 
  be 
  withdrawn 
  from 
  settlement 
  and 
  the 
  buildings 
  put 
  

   under 
  the 
  care 
  of 
  proper 
  authorities. 
  The 
  three 
  groups 
  are 
  known 
  

   as 
  the 
  Square 
  Tower, 
  the 
  Euin 
  Canyon 
  group 
  ; 
  the 
  Holly 
  and 
  Keeley 
  

   Towers; 
  and 
  the 
  large 
  ruin 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  Cajon 
  Mesa 
  called 
  

   Cool 
  Spring 
  House, 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  fine 
  water 
  which 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  

   the 
  cave 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  cliff 
  house. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  Dr. 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton, 
  ethnologist, 
  was 
  en- 
  

   gaged 
  in 
  extracting 
  the 
  words 
  from 
  his 
  Hitchiti 
  texts 
  and 
  adding 
  

   them 
  to 
  his 
  dictionary 
  on 
  cards 
  of 
  the 
  Hitchiti 
  language, 
  and 
  in 
  pre- 
  

   paring 
  a 
  grammatical 
  sketch 
  of 
  75 
  pages 
  based 
  on 
  this 
  material 
  and 
  

   that 
  collected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  S. 
  Gatschet. 
  

  

  Much 
  time 
  was 
  devoted 
  to 
  transferring 
  words 
  to 
  cards 
  from 
  his 
  

   Alabama 
  texts, 
  and 
  from 
  material 
  in 
  Alabama 
  secured 
  through 
  na- 
  

   tive 
  informants, 
  into 
  an 
  Alabama-English 
  dictionary. 
  The 
  first 
  25 
  

   pages 
  of 
  a 
  grammatical 
  sketch 
  of 
  this 
  language 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  com- 
  

   pleted. 
  

  

  A 
  comparison 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  between 
  the 
  Natchez 
  language 
  on 
  the 
  

   one 
  hand 
  and 
  Koasati 
  and 
  Hitchiti 
  on 
  the 
  other, 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  establish 
  

   the 
  position 
  of 
  Natchez 
  in 
  the 
  Muskhogean 
  linguistic 
  stock. 
  This 
  

  

  