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material illustrating obscure points of modern Hopi life. I attended 

 the Flute ceremonies ' at Walpi and Micofiinovi, saw the Snake dances 

 at Oraibi, Cuiiopavi, and Cipaulovi, which bad never been witnessed 

 by ethnologists, and left Tusayan at the close of August. 



After visiting Zufli we went to Isleta and Sandia, made a trip to 

 Tesuki, and returned to Washington September 23rd. 



I was accompanied, during my explorations, by Dr. Walter Hough 

 of the National Museum, to whose valuable aid much of the success of 

 the expedition is due. 



It was advantageous to hire for laborers both Mexicans and Moki 

 Indians, but the latter only were employed on the reservation, for obvi- 

 ous reason. While unaccustomed to hard labor, and physically unable 

 to do as much in a day as a white man, the Indians were faithful 

 laborers, and the young men, especially those from the East Mesa, are 

 anxious for employment, not lazy, but willing to do their best. 



I found Mr. Peter Stauffer, formerly industrial teacher in the Moki 

 School, exceptionally well fitted for camp duties; and to the energy of 

 Mr. J. Bargeman is due the great amount of manual work accomplished 

 by excavations. 



An exact enumeration of the specimens collected is not possible at 

 this time, but my field catalogue has over 1,700 entries, in addition to 

 which there are fully 500 more objects. Probably the whole number of 

 specimens added to the Museum by the expedition of 189G will not 

 fall far short of 2,500 objects. 



The nature of this varied material is both ethnological and arckreo 

 logical, the latter, of course, largely predominating. The ethnological 

 specimens were gathered from Walpi, Zuiii, Isleta, Sandia, and Tesuki. 

 Among these may be mentioned a number of objects purchased at 

 Santa Fe, illustrating the condition of the missions of the Eio Grande 

 Pueblos in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This collection 

 includes paintings on buffalo and other skins, mural ornaments, crosses, 

 and the like. Although small, when added to the few already in the 

 Museium they make a fair beginning of a collection illustrating the 

 mutual influence of aboriginal and Christian art among the Pueblos. 

 Noteworthy among these specimens is a painting on skin, from the 

 walls of an old mission, in which the figure of a saint is represented 

 in a cloud from which descends parallel lines symbolic of falling rain*, 

 and a picture of the Crucifixion on a slab of wood, the edge of which 

 is cut in the form of a terraced rain cloud. 



Dr. Hough, at my suggestion, collected a considerable herbarium, 

 illustrating Hopi medicinal and alimentary plants, obtaining their 

 aboriginal names and uses. 2 He likewise made a collection of fossils 



1 The observations "which were made have been published in an articlo entitled, 

 "The Micofiinovi Flute Altars," Journ. Araer. Folk Lore, 1896. 



2 The results have been published in an article, entitled, "The Hopi in Relation to 

 their Plant Environment." Anier. Anth., Feb., 1897. 



