XL BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Separating- from Dr Fewkes at Holbrook about the end of 

 August, Mr Hodge, accompanied by Mr James S. Judd, a 

 volunteer assistant, made a reconnoissance of all the inhabited 

 pueblos of New Mexico, comprising Zuni, Acoma, and Laguna, 

 in the western part of the territory, Cochiti, San Felij^e. Santo 

 Domingo, Santa Ana, Sia, Jemez, Isleta, Sandia, Taos, Picuris, 

 Santa Clara, San Juan, San Ildefonso, Pojoaque, Nambe, and 

 Tesuque, in the valley of Rio Grande. At nearly all of these 

 pueblos he was able to obtain valuable information relating to 

 the social organization, beliefs, migrations, and attinities of the 

 natives. In several cases the Indians have remained so com- 

 pletely isolated as to be little known to students, and accord- 

 ingly much of the information is essentially new. 



J\lr James Mooney spent the early jiart of the \ear in the 

 field of Oklahoma in researches concerning the Kiowa Indians, 

 the details of which are set forth elsewhere. 



Noteworthy exploratory work was conducted by Mr W J 

 McGee in continuation and extension of the explorations in 

 Ai-izona and Sonora, Mexico, begun during the last fiscal 

 year. Outfitting at Tucson, he started southward on Novem- 

 ber 9, 1895, crossing the frontier at Sasabt^ and proceeding 

 thence in a different direction from that already reconnoitered. 

 By the middle of the month he reached the most elaborate 

 prehistoric works known to exist in northwestern Mexico, near 

 the rancho of San Rafael de Alamito, on the principal wash 

 known locally as Rio Altar. The works comprise terraces, 

 stone walls, and enclosed fortifications, built of loose stones, 

 nearly surrounding two buttes, of wliich the larger is three- 

 fourths of a mile in length and about 600 feet in height. 

 These ruins are known locally as "Las Trinclieras", or as 

 "Trinchera" and " Trincherita ". The whole of the northern 

 side of the larger butte is so teiTaced and walled as to leave 

 hardly a square yard of the surface in the natural condition; 

 and for hundreds of square rods the ground is literally sprin- 

 kled with fragments of pottery, spalls, and wasters produced 

 in making chipped implements, and other artificial material. 

 Mr Willard D. Johnson, who accompanied the party as topog- 

 rajjher (on furlough from the United States Geological Survey), 



