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disclosed, decorated with pictures of the rattlesnake, mountain 

 lion, and bear. One of these vases is now deposited in the 

 National Museum as a part of the collection of the season. 



This collection, consisting of 864 specimens, is in many re 

 spects the most valuable secured by Mr. Stevenson, as it not 

 only exhibits a great variety of form and decoration in pottery 

 (some of the pieces being very old), but it embraces the larg 

 est and most interesting collection of fetiches yet made. Many 

 of the stone images are in human form and different from any 

 thing possessed by the Zuni or Tusayan Indians, those of the 

 latter being, with few exceptions, carved in wood, while the 

 Sia possessed a large number of well carved stone images 

 in human form. The stone animal fetiches are also superior 

 in workmanship to and larger than any heretofore collected. 

 One of the features of the collection is an unusual variety of 

 beautiful plumed fetiches. 



Mr. Stevenson made copious notes on the mythology and 

 sociology of the Sia and obtained their cosmogony with 

 completeness. He closed his field season by obtaining from 

 the Zuni priest-doctors additional detailed accounts of their 

 secret &quot;Medicine Order.&quot; 



WORK OF MR. W. H. HOLMES. 



During the months of August and September Mr. W. H. 

 Holmes was engaged in studying the antiquities of Jemez Val 

 ley, New Mexico. This valley is tributary to the Rio Grande 

 on the west, and its middle porti on is about 50 miles west of 

 Santa Fe. 



Fifteen important ruined pueblos and village sites were ex 

 amined. They correspond closely in type to those of the north 

 and bear evidence in most cases of pre-Spanish occupation. 

 Besides the larger ruins there are a multitude of minor ones, 

 small houses and lodges of stone, scattered through the forests. 

 Mr. Holmes carried his investigations of the ruins of Colorado 

 and New Mexico as far south as Abiquiu, which village lies at 

 the northern end of the group of mountains in which the Rio 

 Jemez takes its rise. His work &amp;lt; &amp;gt;f the year, therefore, enabled 

 him to connect his studies of the northern localities with those 



