ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XLVII 
on Chevlon fork of Little Colorado river, early in July. Later 
he excavated another ruin of imposing dimensions near Chaves 
pass. His work was successful beyond precedent, yielding one 
of the finest and most extensive collections of aboriginal fictile 
ware and associated artifacts ever made in the United States. 
As noted in earlier paragraphs, the material is especially rich 
in symbolic painting and other expressions of the remarkable 
religious beliefs of the Pueblo peoples during prehistoric times. 
A noteworthy collection of ceremonial masks was made at 
Zuni and Sia by Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and has been 
duly installed in the National Museum. In the course of his 
field operations, Mr Mooney obtained additional material illus- 
trating the handiwork and ideas of the Kiowa Indians; and 
toward the close of the fiscal year, while temporarily detailed 
to make and arrange collections for the Tennessee Centennial 
Exposition at Nashville, he brought together and, with the aid 
of the Indians, constructed an exhibit showing in miniature 
the characteristics of the Kiowa camp-circle, the significance 
of which is not generally understood. Toward the end of the 
year Mr Hatcher reported the transmission of a small collec- 
tion representing the primitive industries of the aborigines of 
southern Patagonia. In April Mr McGee obtained an interest- 
ing collection of aboriginal matting and wooden ware from the 
Muskwaki Indians, near Tama, Iowa. The greater part of 
the collection has been transferred to the Museum. Among the 
articles is a carved wooden dish corresponding in form, dimen- 
sions, and ornamentation with an earthenware type frequently 
found in the mounds. The specimen is of peculiar interest in 
that its form was determined by the curved beaver-tooth knife 
with which it was fashioned and in that its esoteric and essen- 
tially prescriptorial symbolism was ascertained, so that it 
explains one of the most persistent forms of aboriginal ware. 
Several other collaborators made minor collections, and a few 
others were acquired from correspondents. One of these is a 
series of iron tomahawk pipes, made for the Indian trade by 
the French pioneers and long used by the tribesmen in lieu 
of the aboriginal weapons of stone, shell, wood, and copper; 
another was a particularly fine collection obtained from 
