ADMINISTEATIVE REPORT XIX 



in symbols related to the higher type from the more 

 northerly localities. 



Beyond this point ruins which mark traditional halting 

 places in migration were not located; beyond it the sym- 

 bolic development has not yet been traced ; but there is 

 good ground for anticipating that when Dr Fewkes returns 

 to the field he will obtain still earlier records of the pre- 

 historic movements and development of this branch of 

 the Pueblo peoples. The work is deemed of much impor- 

 tance as a verification of aboriginal tradition, as a means 

 of verifying other migration legends, and as a promising 

 introduction to the practical interpretation of history 

 unwittingly recorded in graphic symbols. Incidentally, 

 the work corroborates the earlier conclusion reached in 

 the Bureau, that the Pueblo peoples are a resultant prod- 

 uct of Southern cultixre and Northern blood; yet the sig- 

 nificant details throw new light on the entire problem. 

 The report is elaborately illustrated by colored photo- 

 graphs of the ware from the several localities examined ; . 

 it occupies a portion of the present volume. 



Work in Technology 



The earlier accounts of exploration in the territory 

 occupied by the Cocopa Indians seemed to indicate that 

 the tribesmen occupied the coast of Gulf of California 

 and were of maritime habits; but in the course of the 

 expedition led by the Ethnologist in Charge it was defi- 

 nitely ascertained that the folk are essentially agricultural 

 and confined, at least so far as habitations are concerned, 

 to the interior. The industrial condition of the tribe was 

 found to be of much interest. The tribal habitat com- 

 prises the Lower Colorado valley from the International 

 Boundary southward to the head of the gulf, together 

 with a few tributary valleys descending from the Cocopa 

 mountains on the west. The main valley is broad and 

 diversified b}^ distributaries, or bayous, of which the most 

 important is Hardy river, or "Hardy's Colorado." There 

 are also several fairly permanent basins, filled by the 



