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ANNUAL KEI'ORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



pedition to Oraibe and the other Moki villages for the collec- 

 tion of ethnologic specimens, assisted in the scientific branch 

 of the work bv Mr. F. H. Clashing and in the business of trans- 

 portation between Moki and the railroad by Mr. J. D. Atkins 



Owing to the unfriendly attitude of the Oraibe only a small 

 collection, numbering about two hundred pieces, could be se- 

 cured there. After a stay of several days, with no further ad- 

 ditions to the collection, camp was moved on December 25 to 

 the vicinity of Mashong-ni-vi of the middle mesa. Here about 

 twelve hundred specimens were collected, principally from 

 the inhabitants of the three villages on this mesa. Pottery 

 comprised the largest portion of the collection, although stone 

 implements, dance paraphernalia, and a great variety of de- 

 signs in basketwork were also well represented. The collec- 

 tion included also more than one hundred and fifty examples 

 of ancient pottery. This feature was the most valuable por- 

 tion of the collection, as such specimens have become rare and 

 are highly prized by the Moki. 



The packing and shipment of all specimens to the railroad 

 were finally accomplished by February 5, 1883, and Mr Min- 

 deleff reported at the office at Washington on February 15. 



The necessary data for a full descriptive catalogue of the 

 Oraibe collection were secured by Mr. Cushing and similar 

 data for the collection of ancient ware made at Ma-shong- 

 ni-vi. These catalogues form portions of a special detailed 

 report on Oraibe, in preparation by Mr. Cushing, in which 

 the social and regulative features of Oraibe are treated, together 

 with some notes on their architecture and industrial arts. The 

 peculiar causes of the violent opposition shown by these people 

 to the purposes of the expedition will also be set forth by Mr. 

 Cushing in that paper. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS. 

 WORK OF MR. .1. K. IIILLERS. 



Mr. J. K. Hillers, the photographer of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, in connection with his regular duties, succeeded in 

 obtaining fifty photographic views of the ruins near Fort Win- 



