OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XXIX 
disclosed, decorated with pictures of the rattlesnake, mountain 
lion, and bear. One of these vases is now deposited in the 
National Museum as a part of the collection of the season. 
This collection, consisting of 864 specimens, is in many re- 
spects the most valuable secured by Mr. Stevenson, as it not 
only exhibits a great variety of form and decoration in pottery 
(some of the pieces being very old), but it embraces the larg- 
est and most interesting collection of fetiches yet made. Many 
of the stone images are in human form and different from any- 
thing possessed by the Zuni or Tusayan Indians, those of the 
latter being, with few exceptions, carved in wood, while the 
Sia possessed a large number of well carved stone images 
in humanform. The stone animal fetiches are also superior 
in workmanship to and larger than any heretofore collected. 
One of the features of the collection is an unusual variety of 
beautiful plumed fetiches. 
Mr. Stevenson made copious notes on the mythology and 
sociology of the Sia and obtained their cosmogony with 
completeness. He closed his field season by obtaining from 
the Zufi priest-doctors additional detailed accounts of their 
secret ‘‘ Medicine Order.” 
WORK OF MR. W. H. HOLMES. 
During the months of August and September Mr. W. H. 
Holmes was engaged in studying the antiquities of Jemez Val- 
ley, New Mexico. This valley is tributary to the Rio Grande 
on the west, and its middle portion is about 50 miles west of 
Santa Fe. 
Fifteen important ruined pueblos and village sites were ex- 
amined. They correspond closely in type to those of the north 
and bear evidence in most cases of pre-Spanish occupation. 
Besides the larger ruins there are a multitude of minor ones, 
small houses and lodges of stone, scattered through the forests. 
Mr. Holmes carried his investigations of the ruins of Colorado 
and New Mexico as far south as Abiquiu, which village lies at 
the northern end of the group of mountains in which the Rio 
Jemez takes its rise. His work of the year, therefore, enabled 
him to connect his studies of the northern localities with those 
