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S.MITHSOXIAX EXPLORATIOXS. igij 



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EXCA\ATIOXS AT HAW'IKUH. XEW MEXICO 

 An ex])e(lition was organized nnder the ioinl ans])ices of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology and the Museiun of the American 

 Tnchan. Heye. Foundation, of X>w York City, for the purpose of con- 

 (kicting- excavations at the rtiined puehlo of Hawikuh, one of the 

 celebrated Seven Cities of Cibola of the sixteenth century, occupied 

 bv ancestors of the present Zuhi Indians of western central Xew 

 [Mexico. This research, made possible by the generous aid of 

 Harmon W. Hendricks. Esq., a trustee of the Museum of the Amer- 





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Fk;. (X). — Looking east from Hawikuh across liu- ( ).i() Calicnti.' jilain. 

 The elongate mouiifl in the foreground is the ruin of tlic old cliurcli Imili 

 ahout 16^0. Photograph hy K. F. Coffin. 



ican Indian, was commenced in May, I'/iJ. ntidcr the inmicdiate 

 direction of .Mr. !•". W. I lodge, ethn(jlogist-in-charge of the lUueau. 

 assisted l)\- .Mr. .\lanson Skinner and Mr. V.. V . Coffin of the .Museinn 

 mentioned. 



IJotli archeologicallv and historically ilawiknh i^ muc of ilu' most 

 interesting Indian sites in the Cniled States from an ai (. ln-oloL;ical 

 vievv|joiiit bv reason of the h^hl tlir i-.\c;i\ations are expected to shed 

 on the prinntive cultinx- of the '/.\\\\\ pe<i]tl(.'. aixl historically becau^^e 

 of il.s pronnncnt place in the t-arlii'st Sjianisb annals of tin- South- 



