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but few of these came from Casa Grande. These collections embrace 
many types not found at Casa Grande and many beautiful specimens 
illustrating the same types as those referred to in this report. It is 
only necessary to refer to the magnificent material in the Peabody 
Museum, Cambridge, collected at Los Muertos and elsewhere in the 
Salt River Valley, by the Hemenway Southwestern Expedition under 
Mr. F. H. Cushing, and to the private collections made at Phoenix, 
Arizona, by the late Doctor Miller. 
Mr. Benham formerly had installed in his shop at Phoenix a fine 
collection of Gila Valley antiquities, containing specimens owned by 
several persons. 
Some of the objects above mentioned have been described by other 
archeologists, but it may be said that there is no comprehensive 
account of the antiquities of the Gila-Salt area. Although the 
present article will not supply this deficiency, it is the intention to 
include in it all objects found by Government officers at Casa Grande 
and now deposited in the National Museum at Washington. 
A list of these specimens with brief notices and measurements of 
most of them is appended to this report. As will be seen by consult- 
ing this list, more than 1,300 objects have been obtained and cat- 
alogued. It is unnecessary to do more than to refer to the more 
striking of these, but there are added notices of one or two objects 
from neighboring ruins, and of a few collected at Casa Grande before 
the writer’s excavations began. 
MINDELEFF COLLECTION 
The specimens deposited in the National Museum as the result 
of the repair work in 1891, referred to in Mindeleff’s report,? are as 
follows: 
. Bureau Num- 
National 
Museum ee es Article bool Remarks 
number | number mens 
155088 595 | Fragments of large earthenware-vessel.| Lot. Plain red on both sides. 
155089 D967 | PUATES DOWLe cee cern omens <cicemcte aa 1 | Red outside; black, polished inside; 
: stored. 
155090 BOT Harve Vase 22 ooo oo ee 1 | Decorated outside; restored. 
155091 598 | Pottery fragments... - 14 | Decorated. 
155092 599 | Pottery vase (toy).....-...-.......... 1 | Small, dark brown. 
155093 600 | Pottery bowl (toy)..................- 1 | Small, black. 
155094 601 | Pottery disk or spindle............... 4 
1 Mr. Warren K. Moorehead has figured and mentioned in his “Stone Age’’ and other writings many 
instructive archeologic objects found by him near Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe. 
2 The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 ( Fifteenth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethnol., 1897). This 
report, as its title indicates, deals with the details of the repair of the ruin, and likewise of excavations that 
were found necessary; it contains also a short description of the ruin as it was in 1891. Several good 
views, reprinted from a former report, are introduced. In the course of the excavations made in 
preparation for the repair of the ruin at that time, a portion of the east wall near the south corner fell, 
and the connection of the six ceremonial rooms with the main building was destroyed. 
