XXX INTRODUCTION. 
A STUDY OF PUEBLO ARCHITECTURE, TUSAYAN AND CIBOLA, 
BY VICTOR MINDELEFF. 
This study relates to the ruins and inhabited towns found 
in that immense southwestern region composed of the arid 
plateaus which is approximately bounded on the east by the 
Rio Pecos and the west by the Colorado River, on the north 
by Central Utah, and which extends southward to yet unde- 
termined limits in Mexico. The present paper is more directly 
confined to the ancient provinces of Tusayan and Cibola which 
are situated within the drainage of the Little Colorado River, 
and the intention is to follow and supplement it by studies of 
other typical groups in the region, but the necessary compari- 
sons and generalizations now presented apply to all the varied 
features which are observed in the remains of Pueblo architee- 
ture now scattered over thousands of square miles. The work 
of surveying and platting in this vast field, together with the 
consequent coordination of studies and preparation of illus- 
trations, has occupied the author and Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff 
a large amount of time since the year 1881, though it did not 
include all of their duties performed during that period. 
The title of the paper, which only indicates architecture, 
fails to do justice to the broad and suggestive treatment of the 
subject. It would be expected, indeed required, that the sur- 
veys should be accurate in details and that the physical fea- 
tures of the region should be exhaustively described, but while 
all this is well done, much more matter of a different though 
related class, and of great value to ethnology, is furnished. 
The history, prehistoric and recent, the religion, the sociology 
and the arts of the people, with their home life and folklore, 
are studied and discussed in a manner which would be eredit- 
able in essays devoted to those special subjects, but are so 
employed as to be thoroughly appropriate to the elucidation 
of the general theme. 
The chapter on the traditional history of Tusayan, which is 
the individual compilation of Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff, is an im- 
portant and interesting contribution relative to the history, 
migrations, and mythology of the people. The traditions are, 
however, used with proper caution, the fact being recognized 
that they seldom contain distinct information, but are often of 
