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to the ruins which heretofore had been 
lightly passed over; especially was it my 
desire that we might discover new ruins 
where yet remained interesting material. 
In accordance with this idea Mr. Burt, an 
assistant in the department, left Chicago 
early in December of 1899, and began a 
series of explorations in the well-known 
ruins of Homolobi near Winslow, on the 
Little Colorado River. He pushed on to 
the west, following the course of the river, 
and investigating one ruin after another for 
a distance of seventy-five miles. The re- 
sult of this expedition was that our knowl- 
edge of the Hopi was considerably ex- 
tended in a hitherto unexplored region, 
which was occupied by several clans, where 
the manufacture of the so-called yellow 
ware of the Hopi had not been practised. 
In none of the ruins explored by Mr. Burt 
beyond the point known as Cable Crossing, 
did he encounter any of this so-called yellow 
ware, but large quantities of other ware, the 
black and white predominating. About the 
same time that Mr. Burt left for the Little 
Colorado, Mr. Voth and I left Chicago for 
Oraibi, where we spent a little less than a 
month. The object of this—the second 
McCormick expedition—was not so much to 
secure material as to get additional infor- 
mation regarding certain altars. In this we 
were entirely successful, and while there had 
the good fortune to witness the nine day 
Soyal or Winter Solstice ceremony. Full 
notes were taken on this interesting cere- 
mony and it will form the subject of a Mu- 
seum publication shortly forthcoming. A 
number of interesting objects were also 
added to the collection on this expedition, 
of special interest being a number of masks 
and certain tihus or dolls which had never 
before been reproduced for the purpose of 
trade. Early in the present year, Mr. Mc- 
Cormick’s attention was called to the fact 
that additional funds would be needed if 
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generously announced his intention of 
making provision for the continuation of 
the work and above all for an extension 
of archeological investigations among the 
ruins. 
Early in May of this year I again. sent 
Mr. Burt, on the third McCormick expedi- 
tion, to the Lower Colorado, in order that 
the work which had been abandoned on the 
previous year, on account of the setting in 
of winter, might be continued. Mr. Burt 
continued his explorations on into the 
country of the lower Little Colorado river, 
reaching on this occasion Black Falls. As 
a result of this expedition many additional 
specimens, including a large number of 
turquois beads, implements, utensils and 
ornaments of stone, bone and shell were 
secured, as well as a number of skeletons 
which will prove of the greatest value 
when the time comes to attempt to recon- 
struct the past life of the Hopi, so far as 
relates to their physical characteristics. It 
is only just to Mr. McCormick to say that 
he very generously made special provision 
for this second expedition of Mr. Burt’s. 
The fourth and last McCormick expedition 
has just terminated after a period of eight 
months; this was in charge of Mr. C. L. 
Owen, also an assistant in the department, 
who left Chicago early in May. Mr. Owen 
confined his attention to the ruins located 
within the limits of the so-called Province 
of Tusayan, and the first five months of his 
time were spent in excavating at the great 
ruins of Sikyatki, Awatowi, old Mishonovi 
and old Cunopavi. All these ruins were 
well-known to scientists, and from many of 
them collections of considerable importance 
had been made, but so valuable are they 
for the purpose of reconstruction of the 
past history of the Hopi that it was con- 
sidered especially desirable to form as large 
a collection as possible from each one. In 
this Mr. Owen was entirely successful, find- 
ing a hitherto unknown burying ground at 
