OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XXV 
photographed. Its position on the edge of a long valley on 
an eleyated bit of rock suggests its use in connection with 
petty agriculture. Several other ruins of small size occur in 
this vicinity, but the masonry is broken down and overgrown 
with grass and sage brush, so that the arrangement of rooms 
is not traceable. 
On finishing this work the party proceeded to Canon de 
Chelly, Arizona, entering the cation at its mouth. The entire 
canon and all its branches, comprising a length of 85 miles, 
were explored and platted to a scale of 8 inches to the mile, 
a seale sufficiently large to exhibit clearly the relation of the 
ruins to the surrounding topography. Each ruin, after its 
position had been accurately indicated on this map, was drawn 
in detail, the ground plan being given whenever practicable. 
A few of these ruins were inaccessible and could only be drawn 
as seen from below. The cafion and its branches contained one 
hundred and thirty-four ruins, of the greatest variety, both in 
size and in the character of the sites occupied. This work was 
finished early in December, the party returning to Fort Win- 
gate, New Mexico, and proceeding thence to the pueblo of 
Acoma for the purpose of making a collection of pottery. 
Twelve hundred pieces were secured, principally in the latter 
part of December. While the party was camped at this point 
an architectural survey of the village was also made. The 
ground plans were drawn to a scale of 20 feet to the inch, as 
had been done previously in the cases of the Zuni and the 
Tusayan villages, with the object of preparing a large model. 
Mr. Victor Mindeleff reported at Washington early in Janu- 
ary, leaving the camp in charge of Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff until 
the shipment of the pottery, which it was not possible to com- 
plete until the end of January. 
ZUNI RESEARCHES. 
WORK OF MR. F. H. CUSHING. 
Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing continued to supplement and 
extend the field work in Zuni referred to in the reports of his 
operations for the preceding four years. During the last six 
