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from the Atlantic Ocean, or the "Ocean of Sunrise"; and they 

 promised him. through their influence in the Ka'-ka, admission 

 to it, could he realize for them this desire. Receiving the con- 

 sent and co-operation of the Director of the Bureau, he started 

 with a delegation of six of the Indians for Washington, where 

 he arrived on the 28th of February, 1 882. After spending a few 

 days in Washington, he took the delegation to the shore of the 

 Atlantic, near Boston, where ceremonies were performed re- 

 counted elsewhere in detail. 



The devotion, energy, and tact exhibited by Mr. Cashing 

 during his researches among the Zunis, extending over several 

 years, have been fruitful in contributions to ethnologic science, 

 some of which have already been published, but much more 

 remains for future presentation. 



WORK OF MR. STEVENSON. 



During the field season of 1881 a party in charge of Mr. 

 James Stevenson was directed to continue ethnologic and ar- 

 choeologic researches among the Pueblo Indian tribes and the 

 ancient ruins of Arizona and New Mexico, the Pueblo of Zufii 

 and the Mold tribes of Arizona being the designated fields of 

 operation. The large quantities of valuable material, both 

 ancient and modern, possessed by the Pueblo tribes made it 

 important that the work of collecting should be prosecuted 

 energetically, in order to secure as much as possible before the 

 objects should be carried away by visitors and speculators, who, 

 since railroads make the region accessible, are frequently visit- 

 ing that country. 



The party spent about two months at Zufii, after which it 

 proceeded to the Moki Pueblos, constituting the ancient prov- 

 ince of Tusayan, in Northeastern Arizona, remaining there one 

 month. The collection from the Moki Pueblos is especially 

 valuable, as but few specimens had been secured from these 

 tribes except those collected by the Director of the Bureau 

 many years before, during his explorations of the Colorado 

 River of the West 



Among them are some beautiful vases elaborately decorated 

 with unknown designs, and of forms and structure differing 



