ARCHEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN NORTH- 
KASTERN ARIZONA 
By Aurrep Vincent Kipper AND SAMUEL J. GUERNSEY 
INTRODUCTION 
district of northeastern Arizona, carried on in the summers 
of 1914 and 1915 by the Peabody Museum of Harvard Uni- 
versity, under the authority of permits granted by the Secretary 
of the Interior. In the first section of the paper the sites are de- 
scribed in the order of their excavation; the second is devoted to a 
consideration of the specimens recovered; and the third consists of a 
preliminary discussion of the archeological problems encountered. 
Although our explorations in the region are still being carried on, 
it seems best to publish the results of the first two years’ work at 
the present time, in order that they may become available to students 
as soon as possible. | 
The opening up of the immensely fertile archeological field of 
northeastern Arizona is due to the initiative of Prof. Byron Cum- 
mings, whose first expedition into the district was made in 1908. _ 
Since then he has done a great amount of thorough and painstaking 
work in the ruins. The Peabody Museum, feeling that the field 
was essentially his, asked his permission before undertaking their 
explorations. This was most cordially given. The authors wish, 
accordingly, to express their most hearty thanks to Professor Cum- 
mings for his generous cooperation. 
The liberality of the following friends of the Museum provided a 
substantial addition to the somewhat scanty funds available for the 
work: Miss Madeleine Mixter and Messrs. Augustus Hemenway, 
John E. Thayer, Bayard Thayer, William North Duane, Lawrence 
Grinnell, Bronson M. Cutting, Charles P. Bowditch, Clarence B. 
Moore, and J. M. Longyear. 
Thanks are due also to Mr. and Mrs. John Wetherill and Mr. 
Clyde Colville, of Kayenta, at whose trading post the expeditions 
made their headquarters. Their hospitality has always been unfail- 
ing, and we grew to look forward with the greatest pleasure to our 
periodical returns from camp to their little oasis of civilization. To 
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