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(fig. 81), he reached the conclusion, from the resemblance of their 
pottery to Kintiel, that the majority of them belong to the Zuni series, 
or were links, in a cultural chain, connecting the great Chaco 
ruins with those of the Zuni valley, thus supporting by archeo- 
logical evidence, the Zuni legends that one or more of the Chaco 
ruins were once inhabited by Zuni clans. Although not a novel 
suggestion, it 1s a significant one, as the fate of the inhabitants of 
these magnificent buildings is one of the unanswered problems of 
Southwestern culture-history. 
Fic. 92.—Tower in Navaho Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, 
Colorado. Photograph by E. E. Higley. 
In pursuance of another archeological problem Doctor Fewkes 
was obliged temporarily to leave his studies of Hopi migration routes 
unfinished, and on July 20 began the extensive work of excavation 
and repair of a pueblo ruin in the Mesa Verde National Park, 
Colorado. This is a continuation of work in which he has been 
engaged at intervals for the last eight years for the Department of 
the Interior. The appropriation for work on Mesa Verde was 
exhausted at the close of September, obliging Doctor Fewkes to 
abandon the work. A report on this aspect of his summer’s field 
operations has been transmitted to the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution and will be published in the Smithsonian Report for 1916 
under the title, “* A Prehistoric Mesa Verde Pueblo and its People.” 
