XIV BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



A portion of the results has been embodied in the Handbook of 

 American Indians, and the foundation has been laid for an 

 extended paper on the ethnology of this region, to form a 

 complement to his previous studies of the Siouan tribes of 

 the East and the Cherokee. In the meantime he also super- 

 vised the photographing of the large series of shield models 

 and other portions of the heraldry collection made ])y him 

 during previous years, and prepared catalogues and labels 

 for such portions of this material as were required for the 

 Bureau exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Exposition held at 

 Portland, Oreg. 



Dr J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist, spent the first six months 

 of the year in the completion of the text of his monograph 

 on the Aborigines of Porto Rico. He left Washington on 

 January 7, 1905, for an extended archeological trip to the 

 Republic of Mexico, imder a grant from the Smithsonian 

 Institution, and returned on the loth of May. About three 

 weeks were spent by Doctor Fewkes in the City of Mexico 

 making arrangements with Government officials for letters to 

 those who could aid him in the prosecution of his studies. 

 While not thus engaged at the capital his time was profitably 

 employed in studying the collections in the Museo Nacional 

 and one or two private collections and in making several excur- 

 sions to places of archeological interest in the neighborhood of 

 the city, including several of the niins near Lake Tezcoco, as 

 well as those at Iztapalapa and at San Juan Teotihuacan. 

 While awaiting letters of introduction from the President to 

 the governors of Veracruz and Tamaulipas, Doctor Fewkes 

 visited Cuernavaca, where he photographed the so-called 

 "Victory stone," the pictograph of the eagle, and the famous 

 stone lizard, and made a trip also to the ruins of Xochicalco 

 and Tepoztlan. From the ruin known as Casa del Tepozteco 

 he obtained copies of inscriptions on the raised seat in the 

 inner room. 



After receiving the necessaiy letters through the courtesy 

 of President Diaz, Doctor Fewkes proceeded to Xalapa, in 

 the State of Veracruz, which he made the base of operations 

 during February, March, and a part of April. While in 

 the city of Veracruz, considerable time was devoted to an 



