ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LXIX 
not been prepared for extended publication, but is withheld 
for further research in the same region. . 
Although the collections in the National Museum made by 
members of the Bureau in former years for the purpose of 
illustrating the life of the pueblo tribes since the Spanish 
advent is exceedingly rich, comparatively few objects repre- 
sentative of the prehistoric arts of these interesting people have 
been collected. Opportunity having at last been afforded for 
excavation among the remains of the ancient cliff dwellings 
and pueblo peoples of the southwest, the Bureau was fortunate 
enough to enlist the services of the late director of the Hemen- 
way Expedition, Dr J. Walter Fewkes, the results of whose 
researches among the Hopi Indians of Tusayan, Arizona, are 
well known. Dr Fewkes proceeded, late in May, to the un- 
frequented locality known as the Red Rock country, southwest 
of Flagstaff, Arizona, where he had the good fortune to find a 
group of extensive cliff ruins hitherto unknown to archeolo- 
gists and not despoiled by white men. Excavation was prose- 
cuted among these aboriginal remains during June with 
considerable success, and a number of excellent photographs 
were made. At the end of the month Dr Fewkes returned to 
Flagstaff with a view of reoutfitting for a thorough explora- 
tion of some of the extensive and presumably rich ruins in the 
Tusayan country of the northeastern part of the territory. 
DESCRIPTIVE ETHNOLOGY 
Ever since the discovery of the American continent explorers 
have been impressed by the characteristics of the aborigines, 
and many of them have recorded their observations and im- 
pressions in reports, letters, diaries, and treatises, and great 
numbers of these records have been printed and published to 
the world. In this way a great body of literature, sometimes 
styled “Americana,” has been produced. A large part of this 
body of literature relates partly or wholly to the American 
Indians. Usually the records were based on superficial obser- 
vation and frequently they are vitiated by misapprehension 
and hasty generalization. Nevertheless much of the literature 
represents actual observation of the Indians while yet they 
