ADMINISTRATIVK RKPORT XXI 



more of the wicle-riui;>ing' AlgoiKiuiiiu tribes, the little-knowu 

 Yuchi, and some of the JMuskhoo-fan tribes came in fre([uent 

 contact, while the intinence of the arts and industries of the 

 kev-dwellers of Fhti-ida was constantly felt. Here, as else- 

 where, ideas and ideals Avere stimulated by contact, whether 

 peaceful or not; and the devices representing the rapidly 

 growing concepts are especially significant and useful in trac- 

 ing the course of industrial development among the aboriginal 

 tribes. Another noteworthy acquisition is the Moms collec- 

 tion from Arkansas, comprising 181 pieces of pottery, together 

 with a number of stone implements and other objects. The 

 collection is especialh' valuable as an illustration of types of 

 pottery hitherto rare or unknown. The most important acqui- 

 sition of archseologic objects procured during the year is com- 

 prised in the collections made by Dr J. ^V alter Fewkes from 

 the ruins of Kintiel, Pinedale, Fourmile, Solomonville, and 

 other ancient sites in eastern and southern Arizona and south- 

 western New Mexico, an elaborate report on which is now 

 being prepared. Like the collections obtained at Sikyatki, 

 Awatobi, and other Tusayan ruins, these include fictile and 

 textile products, stone, bone, and wooden im])lcnients, and 

 objects of shell and stone used for personal adornment. In 

 symbolic decorative features the mortuary food and water ves- 

 sels, as well as many of the utensils recovered from the houses, 

 are exceedingly rich. The collections have been deposited in 

 the National ]\luseum. 



The process of culture in all the five departments is by 

 invention and acculturation. The invention is at first individ- 

 laal, but when an invention is accepted and used by others it 

 is accultural, and the invention of the individual may be added 

 to the invention of others, so that it may be the invention of 

 many men. ( objects nuiy be used without designed motlifica- 

 tion, or they may be de.signedly modified for a purpose; the 

 ixse of ol)jects without designed modification, like the Seri 

 stone implements, has been studied by Mr ]\Ic(Tee, and he 

 calls such nmnodified implements protolithic, while the mod- 

 ified stone implements he calls ti'chnolitliic. The two phases 

 are widely distinct, not onh in type of object, but even more 

 in the mental o])erations exemplified ])v the objects; for the 



