ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 23 
derstanding of their svmbolism, the significance of which 
has become extinct. When questioned the potters always 
have a ready answer, hence students are often deceived. 
With the exception of the black ware of Santa Clara, the 
pottery of the Tewa has greatly deteriorated. 
Mrs. Stevenson has been enabled to record the names of 
the sacred mountains of the Tewa people, as well as the 
myths associated with them. In their general beliefs and 
customs the Tewa are found to be intermediate between 
the Taos and the Zuni. 
Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was engaged through- 
out the year in office work, continuing the editing and 
copying of the legends, traditions, and myths of the 
Seneca, collected by the late Jeremiah Curtin in 1884-85. 
Of the original list of 120 items composing this manu- 
seript collection, 85 have been edited and typewritten, 
exclusive of two items which were translated from un- 
edited texts.. While this work is now practically com- 
plete, the apparent discrepancy in the number of edited 
and tyepwritten items (about 35) is due to the fact 
that the original list contained a number of texts of 
little ethnological value, being merely narrations of local 
and personal adventures of modern Indians with ghosts, 
and the like, and tales about modern witchcraft. The two 
items completely translated were difficult of rendering, 
as they were partly illegible and had been left unedited. 
Two or three texts of similar character remained to be 
translated, and on these Mr. Hewitt was engaged at the 
close of the fiscal year. The Seneca material collected by 
Mr. Curtin and placed in condition for publication by 
Mr. Hewitt now comprises 1,350 pages. 
In addition Mr. Hewitt undertook the work of trans- 
lating a numbr of unedited and uncorrected manuscripts 
bearing on Seneca traditions and legendary lore recorded 
by himself in 1896. Thirteen of these items were trans- 
lated, aggregating 410 pages. 
As in the past, Mr. Hewitt devoted considerable time 
to collecting and preparing data for replies to corre- 
