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On returning- to Lima, Mr. Means made other trips to various 

 sites in that neighborhood, which is undoubtedly still one of the 

 richest in South America, from the archeological standpoint. He 

 also examined the collections owned by Drs. Javier Prado y 

 Ugarteche and UiHo C. Tello. 



Fig. 76. — The pyramid or liinicu of Maranga about six miles nortJTeast of 

 Lima. The view was taken from the northwest of the pyramid. 



ARCHEOLOGICAL FIELD-WORK IN SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO 



AND UTAH 



The chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Dr. J. Walter 

 Fewkes. spent a month in field-work in southwestern Colorado and 

 the adjoining State, L'tah, directing his attention to the structure of 

 the remarkable towers and castles to which attention was called in an 

 account of his work last season. The ])urpose of this visit was to 

 enlarge our knowdedge of the forms and characteristics of these 

 buildings and their relation to similar structures on the Mesa \>rde 

 National Park. 



One of the im|)ortant results of the field-work of 1918 was the 

 discovery of two hitherto unknown towers in ^IcLean Basin, near 

 Ruin Canyon, about 35 miles from Dolores, Colorado. The excep- 

 tional feature of these towers is their situation on the diagonal cor- 

 ners of a rectangular ruin. One of these towers (fig. 78) is cir- 

 cular, the other (fig. 79) D-shaped : both are constructed of good 

 masonry and stand about 15 feet high. Their relation to the fallen 



