PRELIMINARY ACCOUNT OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE 

 PUEBLO RUINS NEAR WINSLOW, ARIZONA, IN 1896. ' 



By J. W ALTER FEWKES. 



ITINERARY, PERSONNEL, AND COLLECTIONS OF THE EXPEDITION. 



The archaeological expedition under my charge, sent out by the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, in the 

 summer of 1896, began work at Winslow, Arizona, on June 2nd. An 

 exploration was first made of a ruin called by the Ilopi Indians Homo 

 lobi, situated 3 miles from that town, near Sunset Crossing of the 

 Colorado Chiquito River. I discovered a second rnin ."> miles north of 

 Homolobi, on the same side of the river, and on the left bank a small 

 cluster of houses about 4 miles from Winslow, near the site of a Mor- 

 mon town (uow abandoned) called Brigham City. I likewise visited a 

 fourth ruined pueblo 6 miles from the railroad, ou the left bank of the 

 Colorado, north of Winslow. 



At the close of June the seat of explorations was moved to a ruin 

 near Hardy, Arizona, about 15 miles east of Winslow, on the left bank 

 of Chevlon Creek near where it empties into the Colorado Chiquito. 

 Having made extensive excavations at that ruin, we went to Chaves 

 Pass, between 30 and 40 miles about southwest of Winslow, closing the 

 month of July at that place. Shipping the collection which had been 

 obtained from these three ruins toWashington at the close of July, we 

 went to the Middle Mesa of Tusayan, where we arrived on the 3d of 

 August, and immediately began work at the ruin of Old Cunopavi. 

 At the earnest entreaty of Nacihiptewa, chief of the pueblo Cunopavi, 

 my work on the cemetery of Old Cunopavi was given up at the end of 

 two days. We then moved to Walpi, prospected the ancient site of that 

 pueblo, called Kisakobi, with a view to renewed exploration. I also 

 made a reconnaissance in a reported prehistoric home of the Katcina 

 people, called Katcinaba, situated about 3 miles from Sikyatki, but for 

 various reasons we were led to abandon archaeological work for the 

 summer with the experiences at Cunopavi. We therefore set ourselves 

 to the solution of certain ethnological problems, and the collection of 



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