no SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. "J 2 



Comparison with the typical modern P'awnee earth lodge, a photo- 

 graph of which Miss Densmore published in her account of field- 

 work for 19 19. corroborates Thoburn's interpretation of these 

 Missouri mounds. 



ARCHEOLOGICAL RECONNOISSANCE IN HAWAII 



With an allotment from the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 Mr. Fowke spent the entire summer of 1920 in the Hawaiian Islands, 

 making a careful examination of all ancient works of whatever nature, 

 that could be visited with the time and opportunities at his command. 



While there is abundant evidence everywhere that the old Hawaiian 

 people were extremely industrious, using vast quantities of stone in 



Fig. 124. — Pawnee ceremonial earth lodge, exterior. Photograph by 

 Miss Densmore. 



the construction of their temples, houses, garden enclosures, fish 

 ponds, and taro terraces, there was nothing discoverable among all 

 these remains which could be attributed to a prehistoric tribe, or to 

 any other race than that found in possession when the islands were 

 first known to the white man. 



The five principal islands were visited and explored as thoroughly 

 as was possible in the circumstances. It was not practicable to ex- 

 amine every feature of interest, where there is so much demanding 

 attention ; l)ut at no place could there be discovered any indication 

 which would seem to justify excavation with the expectation of un- 



