ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LIX 
Dr J. Walter Fewkes, who was during May commissioned 
to make collections from the cliff and other prehistoric ruins in 
Arizona, continued operations with a fair measure of success. 
He outfitted at Prescott about the beginning of June, and pro- 
ceeded eastward across the headwaters of Rio Verde, through 
a region little known archeologically. He was able to locate 
a number of cliff houses and to make fairly satisfactory col- 
lections therefrom. In the “Red Rock countr y,” some miles 
from Liveoak creek, he was so fortunate as to find two laree 
and extensive cliff ruins hitherto unknown to archeologists 
and apparently not despoiled by white men. Toward the end 
of the month he arrived at Flagstaff and arranged for further 
work, chiefly in the direction of excavation, during July. 
Mr James Mooney, who remains in the field engaged in 
researches pertaining to the customs and especially to the sur- 
prisingly well-developed system of heraldry among the Kiowa 
Indians, made a considerable collection for the Museum, com- 
prising articles of costumery, appliances used in medicine, and 
a large series of tipi models. 
Work among the Kiowa Indians—In connection with making 
collections, Mr Mooney’s researches concerning the heraldry, 
ceremonials, customs, and legends among the Kiowa Indians 
were carried forward throughout the month, and he reports 
satisfactory progress in the preparation of a memoir on the 
system of heraldry found among these Indians. 
Anthropologic classification—The Director continued re- 
searches relating to the classification of the American Indians. 
Various systems of classification of mankind have been devised 
in different civilized countries. In general, the classifications 
hitherto formulated are empiric and rest on a limited number 
of attributes. Accordingly, the systems are more or less dis- 
crepant and more or less unsatisfactory. During the sixteen 
years since the institution of the Bureau of American Eth- 
nology the seience of ethnology has made great progress in 
this and other countries; partic ularly i in this country the attri- 
butes of primitive races have been recorded with care, with a 
constant view to their bearing on the relations of mankind in 
general. Accordingly, the records now in possession of the 
Bureau pertaining to the attributes and relations of races are 
