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ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XVII 



Studied. His operations were extemL-d s..utli«.astwanl tlir..„;rl 

 New Mexico into western Texas an<l nortl„Tn ('lnlni:.lnu. 

 (Mexico); in the latter State he made the most criti.Ml >tii.ly 

 thus far attempted of the extensive prehistoric ruins known as 

 Casas Grandes. Througliout lie made extended notes .»n the 

 surviving tribes, as well as on the various types <.f niiiis and 

 other rehcs, of which a carefully selected collection was 

 broug-ht in on his return to the office on X<»vember 2(). 



On April 28 I)r Fewkes sailed for Porto Hico with tin- ..l.ject 

 of making such a reconnaissance of this and nei^diborin^r islands 

 as might serve to throw light on the aborigiual iudu>tnes 

 still surviving and giving promise of utility and at the same 

 time form a basis for a more extended investigation during the 

 current year. Although extended scarcely beyond i'orfo Kico. 

 his work was successful, yielding material for a spccinl npoct. 

 He returned to Washington and began the })rei»aration of this 

 report just before the close of the tiscal year. 



Mr James Mooney proceeded, on Septeuiber 17, !<• the ticld 

 in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, where he resumed a special 

 investigation of the heraldic systems emj)loye<l anioUL'" the 

 Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, and Cheyenne tribes, llis work con- 

 tinued throughout the fiscal year, yielding the greater part of 

 the material required for an exhaustive monograpli on one ot 

 the most interesting customs of the .\iiierican aborigine.-*, in 

 connection with the study of tlie devices a c«»nsiderab]«' 

 collection of specimens was brouglit together for preservati«»n 

 in the National Museum. 



Throughout the entire hscal year Dr Frank K'ussell was in 

 the field, chiefly in Arizona, though liis cperaticMis exteiuh-d 

 into New Mexico and Colorado, and about the clo.se of tlie 

 year into the Fox habitat in Iowa. Duriug tlie earlier m<»nths 

 he made an extended archeologic reconnaissance of the upper 

 Gila valley, pushing his journey southward to the international 

 boundary^ westward to the area already covered by other col- 

 laborators, and northward to the border of the plateau country: 

 thence the surveys were extende.l over the plateaus into Colo- 

 rado and New Mexico for the purpose ot couipariug the low- 

 land antiquities with those of the highla.ids. I>.n-u.g the 



