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cal and archaeological work to perform, with plenty of time allowed for the 

 work, shall have been over the region, it will be time to offer theories with 

 some hope of their leading to satisfactory results. It is, therefore, with this 

 feeling of the importance of placing on record every reliable fact and obser- 

 vation possible, in relation to the present pueblo tribes, and the ruins of 

 the former more or less extensive towns, and probably communal houses, 

 that the observations of the officers of the Survey are here incorporated, 

 with short descriptions of a number of stone implements, pottery, and 

 other objects found in the pueblos and about the ruins. 



Various objects were also obtained by the officers of the Survey from 

 the Indian tribes of the interior and are briefly referred to in the following 

 pages, though, owing to the rapid disappearance of these from Indian life, 

 their importance is such as to justify a more extended notice than it is 

 possible to give in this connection. 



