﻿XXVI 
  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  DIRECTOR 
  

  

  now 
  occupied 
  are 
  not 
  upon 
  the 
  same 
  sites 
  as 
  those 
  first 
  visited 
  

   by 
  the 
  Spaniards, 
  although 
  retaining 
  the 
  same 
  names. 
  

  

  While 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  surveying 
  was 
  in 
  progress, 
  in 
  charge 
  of 
  

   Mr. 
  Cosmos 
  Mindeleff, 
  Mr. 
  Victor 
  Mindeleff 
  made 
  a 
  visit 
  of 
  

   several 
  daysatKeam 
  Canyon, 
  there 
  to 
  meet 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  the 
  

   Navajo 
  Indians 
  to 
  explain 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  and 
  alia}' 
  the 
  

   suspicions 
  of 
  these 
  Indians, 
  a 
  necessary 
  precaution, 
  as 
  some 
  

   of 
  the 
  proposed 
  work 
  was 
  laid 
  out 
  in 
  ( 
  Janyon 
  de 
  Chelly, 
  in 
  the 
  

   heart 
  of 
  their 
  reservation. 
  Recent 
  restrictions 
  to 
  which 
  they 
  

   had 
  been 
  subjected, 
  as 
  a 
  consecpience 
  of 
  new 
  surveys 
  of 
  the 
  

   reservation 
  line, 
  had 
  made 
  them 
  especially 
  distrustful 
  of 
  parties 
  

   equipped 
  with 
  instruments 
  for 
  surveying. 
  Incidental 
  to 
  expla- 
  

   nations 
  of 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  the 
  work, 
  an 
  opportunity 
  was 
  afforded 
  

   of 
  obtaining 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  mythologic 
  notes, 
  and 
  also 
  interest- 
  

   ing 
  data 
  regarding 
  the 
  construction 
  of 
  their 
  "hogans," 
  with 
  

   the 
  rules 
  prescribing 
  the 
  arrangement 
  of 
  each 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  

   frame 
  and 
  other 
  particulars. 
  A 
  number 
  of 
  ceremonial 
  songs 
  

   are 
  sung 
  at 
  the 
  building 
  of 
  these 
  houses, 
  but 
  of 
  these 
  only 
  

   one 
  could 
  be 
  secured, 
  which 
  was 
  obtained 
  in 
  the 
  original 
  and 
  

   translated. 
  Whenever 
  opportunity 
  occurred, 
  during 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   gress 
  of 
  the 
  work, 
  photographs 
  and 
  diagrams 
  of 
  construction 
  

   of 
  "hogans" 
  were 
  procured. 
  

  

  On 
  August 
  17 
  the 
  ceremony 
  of 
  the 
  snake-dance 
  took 
  place 
  

   at 
  Mashongnavi, 
  similar 
  in 
  every 
  detail 
  to 
  that 
  performed 
  at 
  

   Walpi, 
  and 
  differing 
  only 
  in 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  participants. 
  Sev- 
  

   eral 
  instantaneous 
  negatives 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  phases 
  of 
  the 
  dance 
  

   were 
  secured. 
  On 
  the 
  following 
  day 
  the 
  same 
  ceremony 
  was 
  

   performed 
  on 
  a 
  larger 
  scale 
  at 
  Walpi, 
  the 
  easternmost 
  of 
  the 
  

   Moki 
  villages. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Cosmos 
  Mindeleff 
  assisted 
  in 
  collecting 
  from 
  the 
  present 
  

   inhabitants 
  of 
  the 
  region 
  legendary 
  information 
  bearing 
  upon 
  

   ruins 
  and 
  in 
  observing 
  the 
  snake-dances, 
  a 
  description 
  of 
  which 
  

   was 
  prepared 
  for 
  publication. 
  

  

  While 
  the 
  surveys^£r 
  the 
  ruins 
  were 
  in 
  progress 
  many 
  de- 
  

   tailed 
  studies 
  were 
  mlde 
  of 
  special 
  features 
  in 
  the 
  modern 
  vil- 
  

   lages, 
  particularly 
  among 
  the 
  "kivas" 
  or 
  religious 
  chambers. 
  

   In 
  several 
  instances 
  the 
  large 
  roofing 
  timbers 
  of 
  the 
  "kiva" 
  

   were 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  old 
  beams 
  from 
  the 
  Spanish 
  churches, 
  

  

  