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galley and page proofs for the report on the investigations 

 of the 1928 field season. This i^aper is called Early Pueblo 

 Riiins in the Piedra District, Southwestern Colorado, and 

 is Bulletin 96 of the bureau. 



The winter months were devoted to working over the 

 specimens obtained from the summer's excavations and 

 preparing a report on the investigations. This included 

 the drawing of 31 text figures, consisting of 70 drawings, 1 

 mai^ showing the region m general and the location of the 

 sites, and the writing of a 600-page manuscript. The latter 

 is entitled "The Ruins at Kiatuthlanna, Eastern Arizona," 

 the Zuni Indian name for the locahty. 



Doctor Roberts assisted Mr. Neil M. Judd, of the United 

 States National Museum, in cataloguing the collections made 

 along the Piedra River in southwestern Colorado in the 

 summer of 1928. Illustrated lectures on the archeology of 

 the Southwest were delivered before a number of Washington 

 organizations, and information on the archeology of the 

 New World was supplied in response to many letters of 

 inquiry. 



On May 12, 1930, Doctor Roberts left Washington for 

 Denver, Colo., where one week was spent in studying new 

 accessions in the Colorado State Museum and the City 

 Museum of Denver. 



Leaving Denver, Doctor Roberts proceeded to Gallup, 

 N. Mex., and from there to the Zuiii Indian Reservation. 

 One week was devoted to an archeological reconnaissance of 

 the Zuni area. As a result of this a small pueblo ruin was 

 chosen as the scene for intensive investigations, and under 

 a permit from the Department of the Interior excavations 

 were started. By July 1 a burial mound containing 40 

 interments had been investigated and 16 rooms and 2 kivas 

 or ceremonial chambers in the pueblo had been cleared of 

 their accumulated debris. In addition to much valuable 

 information, 150 specimens, including pottery and other 

 artifacts, had been secured. 



Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was engaged in routine 

 office work from July 1, 1929, to May 7, 1930, and from the 

 latter date until the close of the fiscal year he was engaged 



