A PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF ARCH^OLOGICAL FIELD 

 WORK IN ARIZONA IN 1897.^ 



By J. Walter Fewkes. 



My field work in the wsummer of 1897 opened with an examination of 

 Kintiel, a ruin about 25 miles north of Navajo, Arizona. Extensive 

 excavations were made at Four-Mile Ruin, near the town of Snow Flake, 

 south of Holbrook, and at Pinedale, not far from the northern border of 

 the Apache Reservation. A ijreliminary reconnoissance of the ruins of 

 Pueblo Yiejo, on the Upper Gila south of the White Mountains, closed 

 the archfeological work of the season. 



I was accompanied throughout the summer by Dr. Walter Hough, 

 of the National Museum, and was joined at Four-Mile Ruin by Mr. 

 F. W. Hodge, of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonianlnstitu- 

 tioii. Both of these gentlemen rendered most valuable aid. and con- 

 tributed much to the success of the explorations. 



I left Washington on the 17th of June. 1897, and returned on Octo- 

 ber 16th of the same year, being absent in the field about three months. 

 Nearly a thousand ancient objects were collected from the various 

 localities visited. As in former years, the majority of the specimens 

 were mortuary pottery, but in addition to this material I brought back 

 many notes, photographs^ and plans of rooms and ruins. A visit to 

 the Hopi Indians, in August, enlarged my knowledge of their Snake 

 Dances. 



OBJECT OF THE FIELD WOEK IN 1897. 



The primary aim of my explorations in the summer of 1897 was a 

 continuation of the work of previous summers, viz : To follow the migra- 

 tion of the southern families of the Hopi, along the Little Colorado, and 

 its tributaries, to their sources in the White Mountains. In the preced- 

 ing summer my work extended as far south as Chaves Pass and Winslow, 

 about 30 miles from the latter town. The main result of that explora- 

 tion was the determination of the southern extension of a zone of 

 Tusayan pottery. My first eftbrt, in 1897, was to discover the breadth 



1 While the cost of this expedition was defrayed from the appropriation of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, this preliminary account seems 

 to possess such popular interest that it has been deemed desirable to give it early 

 publication here. 



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