ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXXI 
ruin near Poso Verde having been studied and an ancient 
village near Arivaca, Arizona, probably older than the ruins 
of Rio Salado, having been surveyed. 
Work in synonymy—Mr J. Owen Dorsey reports that his 
work during the month was divided between the examination 
of his manuscripts and books in the library in order to collect 
materials for Siouan sociology, arts, cults, ete, and the prepara- 
tion of a chapter on Siouan sociology. This has been incor- 
porated in the fifteenth report. 
The entire time and attention of Mr Hodge were devoted 
during the month to administrative duties in the office, includ- 
ing the conduct of the library and the editorial work of the 
Bureau. 
Work in mythology—Mr Frank Hamilton Cushing returned 
to the office on the 25th of September after visiting the Ameri- 
can Museum of Natural History in New York City for the 
purpose of studying the collections made by Dr Carl Lum- 
holtz at the Casas Grandes ruins in Chihuahua, now deposited 
in this museum. hese collections are of value in that they 
illustrate the character and extent of the ancient intercourse 
between the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona and the 
Nahuatlan pueblos of central and southern Mexico; and it is 
apparent that careful study of this material will develop a 
knowledge of the origin and evolution of the ancient culture 
of the Mexican tribes and the cognate families of southern 
United States. Mr Cushing also made examination of the col- 
lections in New York gathered in the coastal and montana 
regions of Peru by Mr Adolph F. Bandelier, and the collec- 
tions in Philadelphia procured in the Chira valley of northern 
Peru by Mr Samuel Matthewson Scott, the materials in both of 
which give evidence of an industrial art in metal work closely 
resembling, but far surpassing, that which Mr Cushing has 
experimentally worked out as having existed among the mound- 
building Indians of this country. Later in the month Mr 
Cushing made arrangements in pursuance of which Mr Charles 
D. Hazzard, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has agreed to deposit 
in the National Museum for two years his collections compris- 
ing all the cliff-dweller exhibits displayed at the World’s Co- 
lumbian Exposition. During the month Mr Cushing devoted 
