ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 11 



Documents has likewise been in receipt of many orders 

 for the work, necessitating the reprinting of part 1 some 

 months after its appearance, and about the close of the 

 fiscal year another reprint of this part was contemplated. 

 Much material for incorporation in a revised edition for 

 future publication was prepared during the year, but lack 

 of funds necessary for the employment of special assistants 

 prevented the prosecution of this work as fully as was 

 desired. 



The bureau has been interested in and has condiicted 

 archeological explorations in the pueblo region of New 

 Mexico and Arizona for many years. Since the establish- 

 ment of the School of American Archaeology in 1907, fol- 

 lowing the revival of interest in American archeology, by 

 the Archaeological Institute of America, that body likewise 

 coimnenced systematic work in the archeology of that great 

 region. In order to avoid duplication of effort, arrange- 

 ments were made between the bureau and the school for 

 conducting archeological investigations in cooperation, the 

 expense of the field work to be borne equally, a moiety of 

 the collections of the artifacts and all the skeletal remains 

 to become the property of the National Museum, and the 

 bureau to have the privilege of the publication of all scien- 

 "tific results. 



Active work under this joint arrangement was com- 

 menced in the Rito de los Frijoles, northwest of Santa 

 Fe, New Mexico, in July, 1910, work having already been 

 initiated there during the previous sunnner by the school 

 independently, under the directorship of Dr. Edgar L. 

 Hewett. In August, 1910, Mr. Hodge visited New Mexico 

 for the purpose of participating in the work on the part of 

 the bureau, and remained in the field for a month. 



The great prehistoric site in the Rito de los Frijoles is 

 characterized by an immense circular many-celled pueblo 

 ruin, most of the stone walls of which are still standing to 

 a height of several feet, and a series of cavate dwellings 

 hewn in the soft tufa throughout several hundred yards of 

 the northern wall of the canyon. Accompanying the great 



