8 ANNOUNCEMENT 



parth^ with the view of supplying more fully the information required 

 in the practical work of supervision that the present publications are 

 undertaken. The researches of this Bureau, extending over the last 

 quarter of a century, have resulted in the accumulation of a vast body 

 of information relative to prehistoric remains of the tribes, and this 

 has been embodied in reports most of which are out of print. Not- 

 withstanding the constant demand for these works, it is not possible 

 to republish them, and the series of bulletins now contemplated will 

 in a measure take their place ; at the same time these handy volumes 

 will serve for the use of forestry officers, Indian agents and police. 

 Land Office agents, and others having official custodianship of the 

 ruins, as well as for persons desiring to visit the sites or to undertake 

 archeological researches. The bulletins will be prepared by the best 

 qualified authorities on the several areas of which they treat, and will 

 be accompanied by maps giving the sites already located and afford- 

 ing the means of making corrections and additions. When suffi- 

 ciently perfected, the data embodied in these maps will be incorpo- 

 rated in the general archeological map of the United States which is 

 in course of preparation by the Bureau. 



The present bulletin, by Edgar L. Hewett, ' embraces the very 

 important culture district in New Mexico of which the Jemez plateau 

 is the central physiographic feature. Mr Hewett has in hand a sec- 

 ond number, to include the region drained by the northern tributaries 

 of the Rio San Juan in Colorado and Utah, an area of which the 

 Mesa Verde and its wonderful cliff -dwellings form the center of interest. 

 Dr J. Walter Fewkes is engaged in the preparation of a third bulletin 

 on the vast area included in the drainage of the Little Colorado, and 

 Dr Walter Hough has taken up the antiquities of the upper Gila 

 valley. Other numbers will follow as rapidly as possible, until the 

 whole Pueblo area is adequately presented. 



This series of publications, however, must be regarded as essen- 

 tially preliminary, since the available data, although adequate for cer- 

 tain localities, are still fragmentary, and since much careful exploration 

 is necessary before the subject can be monographically treated. In 

 view of these facts it is most desirable that information should be 

 obtained from every available source, and the Bureau especially 

 solicits the aid of correspondents in correcting the data published and 

 in locating and describing additional sites of all kinds. A card cata- 

 logue of archeological sites of whatsoever character is being prepared, 

 and cards indicating the nature of the data required will be furnished 

 by the Bureau on request.'* 



W. H. Holmes, Chief. 



a A specimen record indicating the desired data is presented in Appendix B, page 54. 



