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pueblo ruins of the Southwest. The building stones have been 
dressed to shape, matched for size, and their faces finished by pecking, 
with such labor as to confirm the belief that this ancient village was 
designed for permanent occupancy. Altogether the work proves of 
great interest, and it is suprising to note the one failing, on the part of 
these early builders : they seem to have been unaware of the necessity 
of breaking the vertical joints in the courses of masonry, thus 
causing many weak points in the otherwise excellent walls. 
Among the special features of interest which Mr. Hodge dis- 
covered were a burial cist where skeletons, pottery, and the remains 
of a mat were found; three small cliff lodges situated in the sides of 
the cliffs; several ceremonial rooms or kivas associated with the 
ruined houses, and the remains of the early reservoirs of the in- 
habitants. 
A full report on the exploration of this interesting pueblo will be 
made by Mr. Hodge in a later publication. 
ANTIQUITIES OF THE WEST, INDIES 
Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist in the Bureau of American 
Ethnology, spent January, February, March, and part of April, 1913, 
in the West Indies, studying the prehistoric antiquities of the Lesser 
Antilles, and gathering material for a proposed monograph on the 
aborigines of these islands. He examined numerous local collections, 
and visited many village sites, prehistoric mounds, shellheaps, and 
bowlders bearing incised pictographs. 
The most extensive excavations during these months were made 
at Erin Bay, Trinidad, in a shellheap of considerable size, where he 
found a valuable collection of animal heads made of terra cotta and 
stone, and other objects illustrating the early culture of that island. 
From Trinidad he went to Barbados, where he found evidences 
of the former existence of cave people living in a shell age or one 
in which stone was replaced by shell. Excavations were later made 
at a village site of the Black Caribs at Banana Bay, Balliceaux, a small 
island near St. Vincent, and a small collection was gathered from it. 
He obtained many drawings of specimens in a rich collection from 
St. Kitts and Nevis, owned by Mr. Connell, and examined the shell- 
heaps at Salt River, Christianstadt, St. Croix, and at Indian River, 
Barbados. The collection of prehistoric objects obtained from St. 
Croix, Danish West Indies, was ample to prove that the early culture 
of the inhabitants of this island was more closely related to the culture 
