﻿I08 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. ']'] 



may have been used only for chiefs or priests. If so we have an 

 explanation of its occurrence around the council houses. A large 

 number of infants were buried in urns. 



It seems evident that there were local dififerences in artifacts, 

 especially ceramic symbols, in different localities or areas dominated 

 by the Muskhogean culture which may be a parallelism with what 

 occurs in the pueblo region, but this means renewed field-work to 

 discover the ceramic facies of each area of population in the Gulf 

 States. 



The relation of the Muskhogean and Pueblo areas calls for archeo- 

 logical work west of the Mississippi along the Red River where many 

 mounds have been reported. Until knowledge of the archeology of 

 this area is more exact, theories of the relationship of these two cul- 

 ture areas to each other and of both to Old Mexico are futile. 



During the past year Dr. Fewkes has received from the State of 

 Washington two characteristic straight tvibe pipes of a variety which 

 is interesting in a comparative way in studying the large steatite pipe 

 collected by him at Lebanon, Tennessee. With the same collection 

 came also an engraved bone object of unknown use. These objects 

 are shown in figure Ii8. 



REPAIR OF MUMMY CAVE TOWER IN THE CANYON DEL 



MUERTO, ARIZONA 



During the past year, Mr. Earl H. Morris, at the request of 

 the Chief of the Bureau, did some necessary repair work on the 

 famous Tower of the Mummy Cave House in the Canyon del 

 Muerto. This tower is approximately 30 feet high, and 11 feet 3 

 inches wide, and once contained three rooms. All woodwork on the 

 first ceiling has been torn out, only the haggled ends of a few of the 

 supports remaining embedded in the walls. 



The cleanly peeled poles which supported the second ceiling are in 

 place, and the third ceiling — or roof — is intact, presumably because of 

 the difficulty which would have attended its removal. 



Covering the supporting poles, there is a closely-laid layer of peeled 

 willows. Probably it is one of the most handsome ceilings remaining 

 in any ruin in the Southwest, its only rivals being the coverings of one 

 or two rooms in the north side of Pueblo Bonito. 



For an unknown length of time the Tower has been in a dangerous 

 condition, due principally to its undermining by the elements. Origi- 

 nally there was a retaining wall rising from the very brink of the 



