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(fig. 8i), he reached the conclusion, from the resemblance of their 

 pottery to Kintiel, that the majority of them belong to the Zuhi series, 

 or were links, in a cultural chain, connecting the great Chaco 

 ruins with those of the Zuhi valley, thus supporting by archeo- 

 logical evidence, the Zuhi legends that one or more of the Chaco 

 ruins were once inhabited by Zuhi clans. Although not a novel 

 suggestion, it is a significant one, as the fate of the inhabitants of 

 these magnificent buildings is one of the unanswered problems of 

 Southwestern culture-historv. 



Fig. 92. — Tower in Navaho Canyon, Mesa Verde National Park, 

 Colorado. Photograph hy E. E. Higley. 



In pursuance of another archeological problem Doctor Fewkes 

 was obliged temporarily to leave his studies of Hopi migration routes 

 unfinished, and on July 20 began the extensive work of excavation 

 and repair of a pueblo ruin in the Mesa V^erde National Park, 

 Colorado. This is a continuation of work in which he has been 

 engaged at intervals for the last eight years for the Department of 

 the Interior. The appropriation for work on Mesa Verde was 

 exhausted at the close of September, obliging Doctor Fewkes to 

 abandon the work. A report on this aspect of his summer's field 

 operations has been transmitted to the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution and will be published in the Smithsonian Report for 1916 

 under the title, " A Prehistoric Mesa Verde Pueblo and its People." 



