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excavations in the Weeden mound. The lower contained 
crude pottery, very few implements, mostiy of shell, all 
having a considerable likeness to the so-called archaic 
Antillean culture of Cuba. The upper layer contained 
very fine specimens of decorated pottery in great numbers, 
showing close relationship to the ceramics of Georgia. 
This indicates an extension southward or a drift of popula- 
tion, possibly allied to the Muskhogean, into the peninsula. 
The relationship of the people of the lower layer was Antillean 
rather than Muskhogean. The inhabitants of southern 
Florida, when the earliest burials were made in the Weeden 
mound, probably belonged to an unknown tribe. The 
artifacts in the upper layer may be remains of the Caloosa 
tribe, which was found there when Tampa Bay was visited 
by Ponce de Leon. The Indians that now inhabit the 
Everglades—the Seminoles—are a late introduction into 
Florida and of Creek descent. The numerous Florida 
shell heaps antedated their advent by several centuries. 
The chief has actively worked during the past year for 
the formation of a new national monument on the Little 
Colorado, near Flagstaff, Ariz. This monument has been 
temporarily named the Wupatki National Monument and 
includes ruins at the Black Falls of the Little Colorado, 
first described by him in 1900. It is to be hoped that 
before another report this most interesting group of stone 
buildings will be added to the other archeological monu- 
ments. The ruins that comprise it have some of the best 
preserved walls in the Southwest. 
The impression exists in some quarters that the work of 
the Bureau of American Ethnology must be completed in a 
certain definite time. This impression has no real founda- 
tion, for ethnology is like any other scientific study and has 
no limitations. Every new year of work in the bureau 
enlarges the horizon of research and presents new problems 
regarding the American Indians for solution. Since the 
foundation of the bureau by the late Maj. J. W. Powell 
the aims and tendencies of the science of ethnology have 
greatly enlarged, and the published studies of the staff 
have put the science of anthropology upon such a firm 
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