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were cooked for food, as when Mr. Preston saw a woman throw an 
apron full into an open fire, while another poked the tortured creatures 
back into the coals with a pole till they were roasted. It was re- 
membered as a good joke that during a boiling of lye and soap fat for 
soft soap, an Indian woman coming to the kettle in the absence of the 
cooks, was seen to grease her hair with the mixture.—H. C. MERCER. 
The Hemenway Collections.—The trustees of the Peabody 
Museum of Ethnology, in Cambridge, received a letter from Mr. 
Augustus Hemenway offering them, on behalf of the trustees of the 
estate of Mrs. Mary Hemenway, the incomparable collection of arche- 
ological specimens gathered during the last seven years by Mr. Frank 
H. Cushing and Dr. J. Walter Fewkes in Arizona and New Mexico. 
These collections are not offered as a gift, but merely as a deposit. 
The trustees of the museum have accepted the loan, and have offered 
a sufficient space for its display. It is probable, however, that the 
deposits will amount practically to a gift. 
A condition of this deposit is that Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, who has 
been in charge of Mrs. Hemenway’s archeological enterprises since Mr. 
Cushing was compelled, on account of continued ill-health, to retire, 
shall continue in charge of the collection, although, of course, under 
the direction of Prof. Putnam, the curator of the museum. 
The collection, which may be divided for convenience’s sake into 
two parts, that formed by Mr. Cushing and that by Dr. Fewkes, is now 
widely scattered. 
The portion excavated in the vicinity of Phenix and Tempe, Ari., by 
Mr. Cushing, is at present stored in Salem, Mass., while some of the 
results of Dr. Fewkes’ expedition to the Moqui Indians of New Mexico 
are stored at 42 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston, and the rest are on exhibi 
tion in the National Museum in Washington. 
How soon these portions will be united in Cambridge has not yet 
been decided, but it is reasonable to suppose by next fall there will be 
a fairly complete display open to the public at the Peabody Museum. 
The indirect cause of these collections was the explorations which 
Mr. Cushing carried on among the Zufiis of New Mexico. The Zufiis 
seemed to Mr. Cushing to possess remnants of certain customs and 
habits which might possibly be referred back to the prehistoric inhabi- 
tants of the ancient pueblos or towns, the big, low, communal buildings 
which lie in ruins throughout the southwestern part of the United 
States. 
A thoroughly equipped expedition, the entire expenses of which were 
paid by Mrs. Hemenway, who had become interested in Mr. Cushing’s 
project, started for Arizona in 1887. For three years a most thorough, 
