FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



J. Waltek Fewkes, Chief 



The operations of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1926, were conducted 

 in accordance with the act of Congress approved AprU 22, 

 1925, making appropriations for sundry civU expenses of the 

 Government, which act contains the follomng item : 



American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among 

 the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the exca- 

 vation and preservation of archajologic remains, mider the direction 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and 

 the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $57,160. 



In pursuance of the requirements for the excavation and 

 preservation of ruins contained in the above item, consid- 

 erable work has been done in the region near Flagstaff, 

 Ariz. Arizona shows many evidences of a prehistoric abo- 

 riginal population and is a State particularly favorable to the 

 study of prehistoric ruins. Thus far very few ruins have 

 been excavated in northern Arizona and very scanty material 

 has been obtained for a study of the objects illustrating the 

 former culture of this region. 



Research in this Une was inaugurated by the bureau in 

 1907 at Casa Grande and has been continued m successive 

 years at the Mesa Verde National Park, Colo. Formerly 

 walls of ruins were destroyed in the search for smaU speci- 

 mens, such as pottery, and thus work of great archeological 

 value was lost. In such a case the institution represented 

 by an archeologist who willfully destroys walls to obtain 

 pottery or other artifacts becomes little more than an organ- 



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