CATALOGUE OF THE HEMENWAY COLLECTION IN THE HIS 

 TORICOAMERICAN EXPOSITION OF MADRID. 



By Dr. J. WALTER FEWKES. 



BRIEF DESCRIPTION. 



The Hemenway expedition is a private undertaking, supported by 

 Mrs. Mary Hemenway, of Boston, United States of America, and has for 

 its object the investigation of the ethnological and archaeological prob 

 lems of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. In the course 

 of several years work the members of the expedition have amassed a 

 large collection of ethnological and archaeological objects from that 

 region, together witk much data previously unknown. During the 

 summers of 1891 and 1892 the labor had for its main object the study 

 of the sedentary Indians of Arizona, called the Ho-pi. 



The collection here exhibited is intended chiefly to show the result of 

 the operations during the last two years relative to the excavations and 

 to the publication of these results, without any reference whatever to 

 the operations prior to 1891, nor to any except those which were car 

 ried on in the province of Tusayan. 



The exhibit of the Hemenway expedition is a monograph of a single 

 tribe of the Indian pueblos, and the articles which figure in it have 

 been selected and arranged to show what were formerly and what are 

 now the customs of certain Indian pueblos of the ancient province of 

 Tusayan, Arizona. An effort has been made to render this collection 

 a monograph of the most primitive of the sedentary Indians now inhab 

 iting the southwestern part of the United States bordering on Mexico. 

 This subject has been treated under two points of view, the archaeolog 

 ical and the ethnological. These two aspects of pueblo life are prac 

 tically identical, the one being merely the ancient aspect of the other ; 

 and by only considering the collection under these two points of view 

 one may familiarize himself with the character of the Indian customs 

 at the epoch of Columbus and of the Conquest, and the probable 

 modifications which they have undergone through the contact which 

 they have had with the superior civilization with which they were asso- 



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