78 Report of the President 



As heretofore, field-work in the Southwestern culture area 

 of the United States was conducted on two coordinate lines, 

 one among the surviving aborigines, the other 

 and Research amon g tne remains of prehistoric peoples includ- 

 ing the ancestors of the living natives. 

 Professor A. L. Kroeber of the University of California joined 

 our field staff in June and began work at Zufii. A collection 

 of about 1,000 pieces was made illustrating the most 

 important native industries. The chief subject of investiga- 

 tion this season was the family organization, methods of 

 reckoning kinship and descent and the clan system. A com- 

 plete survey of the village was made and a census of the 

 families taken. Incidentally, all the adjacent ruinous sites of 

 former villages were examined and, by means of a series of 

 pottery fragments from each, a tentative chronological group- 

 ing was made. 



Associate Curator Robert H. Lowie spent a few weeks 

 among the Hopi in an intensive study of their relationship 

 terminology and family systems. A small collection was 

 obtained as supplementary to our exhibition series. 



In May, Assistant Curator Nels C. Nelson again took up 

 his archaeological work, which occupied his whole time to the 

 end of the year. Chief attention was given to the larger ruins 

 in the outskirts of the Galisteo group. As in previous years, 

 several hundred rooms were completely excavated and careful 

 surveys of the respective sites made. During the latter part 

 of the season, Mr. Nelson made an excursion southwestward 

 as far as Zufii so that his field observations would coordinate 

 with those of Professor Kroeber, noted above. 



President Livingston Farrand of the University of Colorado 

 invited our cooperation in a survey of the little-known sites in 

 the southern part of Colorado. His invitation was gladly 

 accepted and a joint expedition sent out in charge of Mr. Earl 

 H. Morris, of the University Museum. At last report this 

 work was progressing satisfactorily. 



Assistant Curator Herbert J. Spinden, who in former years 

 made an extensive study of the surviving peoples in the gen- 

 eral region of Mr. Nelson's excavations, spent the season in 

 New York preparing a formal report upon his investigations. 



