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inadequate. This information is accompanied by photo- 

 graphs and phonograph records and is rapidly approach- 

 ing completion for publication as a report of the bureau. 



Early in June Mr. Harrington went to Chaco Canyon, 

 N. Mex., for the purpose of making further study of the 

 Pueblo Indian languages, notably the relation of Zuni and 

 Keresan to the newly discovered Kiowan family. Coop- 

 erating with students at the University of New Mexico 

 attending the university summer school being held at 

 Chaco Canyon under the joint auspices of the State Uni- 

 versity and the School of American Research, a minute 

 comparison was made of the Taos and Zuhi languages, re- 

 sulting in the discovery of the genetic relationship of these 

 two languages, a relationship which can be traced through 

 hundreds of words of similar sound and identical con- 

 struction, which was long ago hinted at by the discovery 

 of such words as Ian a, big, and papa, older brother, which 

 are the same in sound and meaning in both languages. 

 About 200 kymograph tracings were made. Similar gen- 

 etically related words and features were also discovered in 

 the Keresan language. Cooperating in this work were 

 Miss Sara Godard, Miss Clara Leibold, Miss Anna Ris- 

 ser, Miss Janet Tietjens, Miss Winifred Stamm, Mr. Regi- 

 nald Fisher, and several other students. The results are 

 ready for publication, including the kymographic alpha- 

 bet, which is mounted and ready for the engraver. 



The months of July and August, 1928, were spent by 

 Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, jr., archeologist, in completing 

 archeological investigations along the Piedra River in 

 southwestern Colorado. During that time the remains of 

 50 houses belonging to the first period of the prehistoric 

 Pueblo peoples were excavated and examined. As a re- 

 sult of these researches it was possible to determine a 

 three-stage chronological development of the house types 

 in the district as well as to postulate very definite recon- 

 structions of the dwellings. An additional discovery was 

 that in the arrangement of the structures the builders had 

 developed the prototype of the unit house which was the 



