CERTAIN ANTIQUITIES OF EASTERN MEXICO 



Bj' Jesse Walter Fewkes 



PREFACE 



The explorations and studies embodied in the present paper were 

 undertaken 1iv Doctor Fewkes, Ethnologist in the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, at the instance of the Secretar}' of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, and funds for the field work were furnished by the Institution. 

 The jmrticular field of operations was chosen with the view of deter- 

 mining, if possible, by means of a reconnoissance of the eastern states 

 of Mexico, whether or not any definite connection or relationship existed 

 between the ancient peoples north of the Rio Grande and within the area 

 of the L^nited States and those to the south in Mexico, especially the 

 semicivilized tribes of middle ^Mexico and Yucatan. The present study 

 must be regarded as preUminary only, the field work not j^et having 

 progressed sufficiently to furnish data for definitive results; but it is, 

 nevertheless, a verj' important contribution to our knowledge of the 

 ancient culture of the Gulf states of ^Mexico, and it is hoped that the 

 researches thus initiated may be continued and completed in the near 

 future. 



W. H. HoLMKs, Chief. 

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