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collection of over 200 objects, which are typical and regarded as an 

 important accession to the U. S. National Museum, especially as up 

 to that time objects illustrating the prehistoric development of the 



Fig. 63. — Cliff on which Oldtown ruin is situated, overlooking Sink of Mimbres. 

 Photograph by J. W. Fewkes. 



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Fig. 64. — Oldtown ruin. Photograph by J. W. Fewkes. 



Mimbres Valley had been unrepresented in any museum in the world. 

 A preliminary report in which these objects were described and 

 figured was published by the Smithsonian Institution near the close 

 of the year. 1 



1 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 63, No. 10 (Publ. 2316), 1914. 



