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SMITHSOXIAX MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 70 



On returning- to Lima. Mr. Means made other trips to various 

 sites in that neighhorhood. which is undouhtedlv still one of the 

 richest in South America, from the archeological stand])()int. He 

 also examined the collections owned hy Drs. Javier I'rado y 

 Usarteche and Julio C. Tello. 



P^ir,. 70. — Tlie ])yramid or Jiiiaca of Alarantia about six miles nortlieast of 

 Lima, i he view was taken from tlie northwest of tlie |>\Tami(l. 



ARCHKOLOGICAL FIELD-WORK IX SOUTHWKSTI-RX COLORADO 



AND I'TAH 



The chief of the Ihu'eau of American F.thnologw Dr. |. Walter 

 hewkes. spent a month in held-work in south.wcstern Colorado and 

 the adjoining State, L'tah, directing his attention to the structure of 

 the remarkahle towers and castles to which attention was called in an 

 account of his work last season. 1die ])urpose of this visit was to 

 enlarge our knowledge of the forms and characteristics of these 

 huildings and their relation to similar structm-es on the Mesa \ erde 

 National Park. 



One of the important results of the field-work of 1918 was the 

 discoverv of two hitherto tmknown towers in McT,ean liasin. near 

 Ruin Canvon, ahout 35 miles from Dolores, Coloraflo. The excep- 

 tional featm-e of these towers is their situation on the diagonal cor- 

 ners of a rectangular ruin. ( )ne of these towers (fig. "/?■>) is cir- 

 cular, the other (fig. 79) D-shaped : Ijoth are constructed of good 

 masonrv and stand ahout is feet high. Their relation to the fallen 



