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from Dallas, Tex., but on examination this was found to be a 

 natural sandstone formation. 



Dr. Fewkes returned to Washington in November and 

 immediately prepared a report on his summer's work in the 

 Mesa Verde National Park for the use of the Department 

 of the Interior, an advance summary of which, issued by the 

 department, was widely published in the newspapers. An 

 account of the excavation and repair of Oak-tree House and 

 Painted House, the largest cliff ruins in Fewkes Canyon, was 

 also prepared for publication. On the completion of these 

 tasks Dr. Fewkes devoted the remainder of his limited time 

 to the preparation of the extended memoir on The Abori- 

 gines of the West Indies for publication in a report of the 

 bureau. In June he again departed for the field with the 

 view of initiating, before the close of the fiscal year, an 

 inquiry into the archeological evidences bearing on Hopi 

 legends that ancestors of the clans of the ancient pueblo of 

 Sikyatki lived at Tebungki, or Beshbito, an oval ruin 15 

 miles east of Keams Canyon, Ariz. Dr. Fewkes visited and 

 surveyed the ruin and made photographs and notes thereof. 

 He likewise investigated certain large ruins east of Tebungki, 

 on the ancient trail of migration from Chaco Canyon, and 

 traced for some distance the prehistoric trail running from San 

 Juan Valley southward past the great ruins, as yet unde- 

 scribed, near Crownpoint, N. Mex. 



During the months of July to December, 1915, Mr. James 

 Mooney, ethnologist, continued to devote most of his atten- 

 tion to the preparation for publication of the Cherokee 

 Sacred Formulas, including transliteration, translation, and 

 explanation of each formula, with complete glossary and 

 botanic index. These formulas, collected by Mr. Mooney on 

 the East Cherokee Reservation in North Carolina, are writ- 

 ten in the Cherokee language and alphabet and held for their 

 own secret use by priests of the tribe, most of them long 

 since dead. They consist of prayers, songs, and prescrip- 

 tions, dealing with medicine, love, hunting, fishing, agricul- 

 ture, war, the ball play, self -protection, etc. They number 



