. ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 11 
a record are, in order of date: Gov. Francisco Manuel de 
Silva Nieto, who escorted the first missionaries to Zuni in 
1629; Juan Gonzales, probably a member of the small 
military escort accompanying the same party, and bearing 
the same date (1629) ; Lujan, who visited Zuni in 1632 to 
avenge the murder of Fray Francisco Letrado, one of 
the missionaries who accompanied Silva Nieto; Juan de 
Archuleta, Diego Martin Barba, and Agustin de Ynojos, 
1636; Gov. Diego de Vargas, 1692, the conquerer of the 
Pueblos after their rebellion in 1680 which led to their 
independence of Spanish authority during the succeeding 
12 years; Juan de Uribarri, 1701; Ramon Paez Hurtado, 
1709; Ju. Garcia de la Rivas, Feliz Martinez, and Fray 
Antonio Camargo, 1716; Joseph de Payba Basconzelos, 
1726; Juan Paez Hurtado and Joseph Truxillo, 1736; 
Martin de Elizacochea (bishop of Durango) and Juan 
Tgnacio de Arrasain, 1737; and others of the eighteenth 
century. These inscriptions were all carefully photo- 
graphed by Mr. Jesse L. Nusbaum, with whose aid Mr. 
Hodge made paper squeezes which were brought to Wash- 
ington and transferred to the National Museum, where 
Mr. Nusbaum later made plaster casts of the paper nega- 
tives, insuring the permanent preservation of the inserip- 
tions in this manner. This work was accomplished none 
too soon, since deterioration by weathering is progressing 
in some parts of the cliff face bearing the inscriptions, 
while vandalism is perhaps playing an even more serious 
part in the destruction of these important historical 
records, notwithstanding the fact that El Morro has been 
created a national monument by Executive order. 
Early in September Mr. Hodge joined Dr. Edgar L. 
Hewett, director of the School of American Archeology, 
and his assistants, in the Jemez Valley, about 65 miles 
northwest of Albuquerque, for the purpose of conduct- 
ing excavations, under the joint auspices of the bureau 
and the school, in an extensive ruined pueblo on a mesa 
1,800 feet in height, skirting the valley on the west. This 
village was occupied within the historical period by the 
