NO. 10 ARCHEOLOGICAL COLLECTION FEWKES I5 



part, and ovei' the border into New Mexico, where we find evidences 

 of a more thickly settled region, indicating that incoming people from 

 the north, east, and south had united with it or modified it, and 

 formed a mixed pueblo people. The survivors of this mixture are 

 represented by inhabitants of the modern Zuiii and Hopi pueblos, 

 especially the latter, which have conserved to our own time the 

 least modified cultural elements of the prehistoric Southwest. There 

 are many areas where intensive archeological work, both chrono- 

 logical and cultural, is much needed, but not one which promises 

 more than the region about Flagstaff. 



The forms, colors, and designs on the pottery bowls figured re- 

 semble those from the Black Falls, which as the author has shown 

 are similar to those from an area in northern Arizona known to the 

 Hopi as Tokonabi. Like specimens occur in sites situated in the 

 East Mesa Wash and elsewhere in ruins not yet described. The 

 author suggests that the name Tokonabi be applied to the culture 

 area, which is a very extensive one, in which the ruins here referred 

 to are situated. Neither the types of artifacts or architecture nor the 

 boundaries of this culture can be determined without more field 

 exploration. 



