ADMrNISTEATIVE REPORT SLIII 



Stationery, supplies, etc 81, 238. 04 



Freight 257. 93 



Postage, telegrams, etc 72. 50 



Miscellaneous 108.65 



$13, 234. 86 



Total disbursement .?47, 315. 31 



Balance July 1, 1902 2, 684. 69 



ACCOMPANYING PAPERS 



The three papers presented in connection with this 

 Report mark a forward step in the systematic researches 

 undertaken by the Bureau, and relate to fields already 

 more or less fully occupied by the authors represented. 

 The paper of Dr Fewkes, Two Summers' Work in Pueblo 

 Ruins, is based on explorations made in the heart of the 

 pueblo country during the years 1896 and 1897, and 

 serves, in connection with his previous writings, to extend 

 our knowledge of the local tribes back into the shadowy 

 time that witnessed the gathering of the clans on the 

 plateaus and in the canyons of the Colorado valley. The 

 ruins described are located in the middle part of the 

 valley of the Little Colorado and in the upper Gila valley, 

 to the south. In the prosecution of these researches Dr 

 Fewkes has made much progi'ess in verifying traditions 

 of the Hopis and in determining affinities and movements 

 of the prehistoric communities; and, by utilizing his rich 

 fund of accumulated knowledge, he has succeeded in 

 contributing materially to our understanding of the unique 

 culture of this remarkable region. 



The paper by Dr Thomas, Maya Calendar Systems, 

 deals with the interpretation of the ancient records of the 

 Maya tribes of Middle America. Not having discovered 

 an American Rosetta stone, the students of this impor- 

 tant branch of native culture have given chief attention 

 to the more pregnable features of the records — the systems 

 of numeration as applied to the native calendar. Largely 

 through the persistent and most praiseworthy efforts of 

 A. P. Maudslay, the known examples of glyphs, sculp - 

 tm-ed in stone and wood, modeled in stucco, and painted 



