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situated, is another small cliff lodge, now accessible only by artificial 

 means. Examination of the interior, as in the case of the cliff lodge 

 above described, yielded nothing of interest. Farther up the valley, 

 on the northern side, in plain view near the base of a mesa, is a larger 

 cliff lodge, filled to a considerable depth with detritus from the soft 

 stone forming the roof and side walls. Examination of the floor of 

 this lodge a few years ago by Mr. Hodge yielded a few corncobs, 

 one or two small objects made of yucca leaves, and a wooden drum- 

 stick of a form such ns the Zuni now employ. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist, spent the month of July, 1913, 

 in the office continuing the preparation of his monographic report 

 on the aborigines of the West Indies, especially describing the many 

 objects from these islands in the noteworthy collection of George G. 

 Heye, esq., of New York. He made a visit to New York toward the 

 close of the month to study recent additions to this collection and to 

 supervise the preparation of the illustrations for his report. It 

 became necessary, in order to make this memoir as comprehensive 

 as possible, to investigate types of the Guesde collection, now owned 

 by the Museum fiir Volkerkunde in Berlin. Accordingly Dr. Fewkes 

 went to Europe at his personal expense and spent August, Septem- 

 ber, and October studying these types and also many undescribed 

 Porto Rican and other West Indian objects in various museums. 

 Drawings of about 140 specimens, many of which have not been 

 described, were made during the course of these studies in Berlin. 

 He also visited the museum at Copenhagen, Denmark, which con- 

 tains many old specimens from the Danish West Indies and some 

 rare types of prehistoric objects from Porto Rico, all of which were 

 either drawn or photographed. West Indian objects were found also 

 in the museum collections of Leipzig, Dresden, and Vienna. Some 

 time was given to an examination of the dolmens and megaliths in 

 the neighborhood of Berlin and elsewhere in northern Germany, and 

 of the numerous mounds and prehistoric workshops on the island 

 of Riigen in the Baltic Sea. 



Dr. Fewkes spent his vacation on the shore of the Mediterranean, 

 which he crossed, visiting the most striking ruins in Egypt, pene- 

 trating as far south as Assouan, and making special studies of the 

 remaining evidences of neolithic man at Abydos and El Kab on the 

 banks of the Nile. He had always in mind a study of prehistoric 

 irrigation in this region, with a view to comparing the works with 

 similar remains in Arizona. In the museums at Cairo and Assouan 

 Dr. Fewkes examined considerable material dating back to late 

 neolithic times and found a remarkable similarity not only in archi- 

 tectural features but also in stone implements, basketry, bone imple- 

 ments, and other artifacts from the valley of the Nile and those from 

 our Southwest. One of the important features of the visit to Egypt 



