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that gives special interest to the skeletons 

 described. Burial pots are seldom accompanied 

 by personal effects. The published paper will 

 contain a diagnosis of skeletons by some anthro- 

 pologist. Dr. Edgar L. Hewett stated that the 

 skulls were of cliff dweller type, and that the 

 doliochocephalie shape had been disguised by 

 pressure of the cradle' board. 



A prehistoric skull excavated near Tucson: 

 EoBEKT F. Gilder. The author described objects 

 found in excavating prehistoric ruins west of 

 St. Mary's Hospital, Tucson, Arizona. Special 

 attention was called to a skull uncovered some 

 five and a half feet beneath the surface, under a 

 floor. 



Orientation of prehistoric house outlines near 

 Bear Canyon, Tucson, Arizona: H. B. Leonabd 

 and A. B. Douglass. The work was done in 

 1920-1921. Some five compounds were surveyed 

 and plotted: notes, directions and levels taken. 

 The longest walls point about a dozen degrees to 

 the west of south. This work of mapping and 

 surveying ruins in the southwest should be under- 

 taken by more people with engineering skill. As 

 the material is rapidly disappearing all possible 

 notes should be made so that in the future stu- 

 dents may substantiate any claims. 



Yaqui ceremonial dances: Mrs. Phebe Bogan. 

 About two miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, 

 there is a settlement of some two hundred Yaqui 

 Indians who were driven from Sonora, Mexico, 

 by the Indian wars following the overthrow of 

 Madero in 1913. The ceremonial dances of these 

 Indians, particularly those held during Easter or 

 Holy week each spring since their settlement in 

 this locality, furnishes the material for this 

 paper. Lantern slides showing the dancers, their 

 costumes, and the location of the dances were 

 used to illustrate the talk. 



Native American artists: Edgar L. Hewett. 



lAfe forms in the pottery decoration of the 

 Pueblo area: Kenneth M. Chapman. The dec- 

 oration of ancient pueblo pottery is geometric 

 in form, and this geometric treatment is also 

 found in the drawing of life forms. Later types 

 of Pueblo ware were developed in various areas 

 within the Pueblo region. In some of these areas 

 the decoration broke away from the limitations 

 of geometric art. Life forms became more real- 

 istic, but were combined with a new and more 

 varied symbolism. Following the Spanish inva- 

 sion, there appeared a still greater diversity of 

 decorative styles, until now each Pueblo com- 

 munity has its own distinctive decorative art in 

 which various life forms still persist. Of all tli'e 



life forms the bird predominates throughout this 

 transition from ancient to modern. 



Progress report in research in Jameg region: 

 Wesley Bradpield. The beginning of a series of 

 excavations and studies in the Jamez culture 

 region in New Mexico was begun in 1921 by the 

 School of American Research. The two sites 

 chosen for the first more intensive study were 

 Un-shagi and Guiusewa — four miles above, and at 

 the site of the old Jamez Mission, near Jamez, 

 Hot Springs. Work in the large burial place 

 was described and tentative plans for the coming 

 season's work. These sites are under the control 

 of, or are owned by the School of American Ee- 

 search. 



Some archeological studies in the neighborhood 

 of flagstaff: L. F. Brady. The occurrence of 

 pottery fragments and other artifacts at depths 

 varying from four to nearly twenty feet in un- 

 disturbed stratified alluvial at the north of Flag- 

 staff, together with the presence of semi-fossiUzed 

 stumps of yellow pine at similar depths, suggested 

 a method for computing the date of the nearby 

 ' ' small-house ' ' ruins in the neighborhood. The 

 pottery fragments and other articles suggested an 

 early stage in the development of the ' ' small- 

 house ' 'culture, which is perhaps one of the earli- 

 est forms of the proto-pueblo culture of the South- 

 west. Much field work still remains to be done. 



A half century of archeological research in the 

 Southwest: Paul A. P. Walter. 



History and Sociology 

 Pueblo land tenures in New Mexico and Ari- 

 zona: E. E. TWITCHELL. 



The arms conference at Washington: H. A. 

 Hubbard. 



Some sociological characteristics of the South- 

 west: Fred D. Merritt. 



Beginning of representative government in 

 New Mexico: Lansing B. Bloom. From Eome 

 and Spain, New Mexico received the form of 

 municipal government which she exercised from 

 the founding of Santa Fe, about 1609, down to 

 the American occupation in 1846. Under Spain 

 also she elected deputies to the Cortes of 1810, 

 1820 and 1822-3. With the coming of Mexican 

 independence, she chose deputies to Durango, 

 Chihuahua, and for twenty-five years to the Con- 

 gress in Mexico City. And during the same 

 period deputies of her own election served in 

 successive deputations of the territory. New 

 Mexico had received the form of representative 

 government from the outside, but, thrown almost 

 entirely upon her own resources, she made these 

 forms her own by adaptation and use. 



