XIV BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
future in adding to existing collections of prehistoric 
objects from Porto Rico and in placing them in their 
proper categories. 
Doctor Fewkes made excavations in a cave called Cueva 
de las Golondrinas, situated near the town of Manati, and 
found large quantities of Indian pottery and a few other 
objects of aboriginal manufacture. All the evidence col- 
lected indicates that, while the aborigines had frequented 
this cave for a long time, the culture of earlier and later 
occupants was practically identical. After his return to 
Washington in May, Doctor Fewkes was occupied in cata- 
loguing the objects collected during the winter and in 
preparing a preliminary report on them. He was per- 
mitted to withdraw the account of his previous year’s 
explorations, which had been transmitted to the Publie 
Printer as a bulletin, with a view of incorporating with it 
the new material obtained during his second visit to the 
island. The valuable results of the two years’ work will 
thus appear in monographic form in a forthcoming annual 
report. 
The researches of Doctor Fewkes furnish much material 
of value bearing upon questions of science and history. 
Of first importance is the decided advance made toward 
identifying and rehabilitating the unfortunate peoples of 
the West Indies, swept almost without record from the 
islands during the early years of Spanish colonization. 
Considerable information regarding their physical char- 
acters and manner of life has been gained, and various 
branches of culture are illustrated by the collections, while 
definite notions of the origin, burial customs, and arts 
and industries of the island peoples are for the first time 
conveyed to the world of science. These researches have 
thus shed much new light on an important chapter in 
aboriginal American history. 
The months of July to November, inclusive, were spent 
by Mrs M. C. Stevenson in researches among the Zuni 
Indians, the special objects being a comparative study 
