XXXVI ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



furnished bv liim, to the effect that the artistic methods of the 

 Mound Builders are traceable among the historic tribes of 

 North America, tending to show that, contrary to the once 

 current belief based exclusively on the same evidence, there is 

 no marked racial distinction between them. 



ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES OF THE COLLECTIONS OB- 

 TAINED FROM THE INDIANS OF NEW MEXICO AND ARI- 

 ZONA IN 1S79 AND 1880, BY MR. JAMES STEVENSON. 



During the field seasons of the years 1879 and 1 880, extend- 

 ing into 1881, Mr. James Stevenson was in charge of a party 

 to make explorations in and obtain collections from the countiy 

 occupied in part by the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. 

 The most important and most fruitful field was the pueblo of 

 Zuni, but valuable specimens were also secured from Wolpi, 

 Laguna, Acoma, Cochiti, San Domingo, Tesuque, Santa Clara, 

 San Juan, Jemez, Old Pecos, the Canon de Chelley, and from 

 the Jicarillas. The objects procured by these expeditions, 

 now deposited in the National Museum and enumerated, to- 

 gether with sufiicient description, in the catalogue published, 

 amount to three thousand nine hundred and five, the most in- 

 teresting and typical of them being illustrated, for the benefit of 

 students unable to examine the originals, in three hundred and 

 sixty-eight figures. The specimens consist of implements of 

 war and hunting, articles used in domestic manufacture, cloth- 

 ing and personal ornaments, basketry, horse trappings, images, 

 toys, stone tools, musical instruments, objects used in religious 

 ceremonies and in games, fabrics, paints, dye stuffs, medicines, 

 and many other articles. The most precious part of the collec- 

 tion, however, is the pottery, which Mr. Stevenson divides into 

 six classes: 1, the red or uncolored; 2, the brown ware; 3, the 

 black ware; 4, the cream white decorated in colors; 5, the red 

 ware decorated; and 6, the ancient pottery. 



Mr. Stevenson's remarkable success has been accomplished, 

 not only by great energy, but by tact and skill in winning 

 the confidence of Indian tribes, resulting from his experience 

 in former expeditions. His catalogue is by no means a mere 

 enumeration, but is accompanied by a judicious amount of dis- 



