20 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



PRESERVATION OF ANTIQUITIES 



The Bureau maintained its interest in the antiquities of 

 the country during the year. Bulletia 35, "The Antiquities 

 of the Upper Gila and Salt River Valleys in Arizona and 

 New Mexico," by Dr. Walter Hough, was issued. The 

 $3,000 appropriated by Congress for the excavation, repan, 

 and preservation of Casa Grande ruin in Ai'izona, and the 

 $2,000 allotted by the Interior Department for similar work 

 among the cliff-dwellings of the Mesa Verde National Park 

 in Colorado, were expended under the immediate auspices 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, the execution of the work 

 being intrusted to Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist, as 

 elsewhere reported. 



Progress was made in the preparation of a catalogue of 

 antiquities, and valuable data in this field were collected by 

 Mr. W. B. Douglass, of the General Land Office, whose official 

 labors recently brought him into contact with the antiquities 

 of southeastern Utah. 



During the year, by Executive proclamation, several addi- 

 tions were made to the growing list of national monuments. 

 Three of these are of especial archeologic interest, namely, 

 the Tonto National Monument, situated in the Tonto drainage 

 basin, Gila County, Ai'iz., including two cliff-dwellings not 

 yet reported on in detail; the Gila Cliff Dwellings National 

 Monument, in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, com- 

 prising the group of cliff-dwellings described in the Bureau's 

 Bulletin 35 (page 30) ; and the Grand Canyon National I\Ionu- 

 ment, comprising within its limits the Grand Canyon of the 

 Colorado, in which are situated innumerable antiquities, 

 including cliff-dwellings, pueblos, dwelling sites, and burial 

 places. The cliff-dwellings are found mainly in the walls of 

 the canyon, while the other remains are scattered along the 

 margins of the plateaus. 



COLLECTIONS 



The collections acquired diu'ing the year and transferred 

 according to custotn to the National Museum are not equal 

 in importance to those of the preceding year. They com- 



