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careful and scientifically conducted expedition was carried on among 
these pueblos under the direction of Mr. Cushing. 
The collection of specimens, including almost every variety of pre- 
historic implement, utensil and ornament in use among the ancient 
dwellers, which Mr. Cushing obtained is the most valuable ever carried 
out of Arizona. There is nothing from the same region comparable to 
it anywhere. Even more valuable are the facts which Mr. Cushing 
was enabled to learn from his explorations about the life and religious 
habits of this heretofore mysterious race. As yet, however, the facts 
have not been published by Mr. Cushing, who, since his illness, has 
been employed by the national government. 
* The explorations of Dr. Fewkes were made during the summers of 
1890, 1891, 1892 and 1893. They were confined exclusively to the 
Moqui and Zuñi tribes. 
Much attention was paid to the | religious —— of the Zufiis. A 
set of phonograph cylinders, songs, was obtained 
during the summer of 1890. The cylinders, of course, are preserved 
in the Hemenway collection. 
A year or so later the magnificent Keam collection was acquired by 
purchase. Keam had been a trader among the Moqui Indians for 
twenty years. Like most Indian traders, he had acquired a collection 
of utensils and religious paraphernalia, colleeted with an idea to sell 
at some future day. He had refused to sell single pieces, keeping the 
whole lot intact for some future purchaser. Every specimen was 
labeled with a short description. In its numbers are included both 
ancient and modern articles—blankets, basket ware, religious and 
household pottery, kilts, dolls (which are made in the likeness of idols, 
serving as a sort of kindergarten instruction to the children in religion), ' 
in fact, almost every type of old and new, of everything in use among 
the Moquis and their predecessors. Not only is the collection the best 
in the world, but it must always remain so, for the Moquis have by this 
time become sophisticated by white civilization. Added to this Keam 
collection are the valuable supplementary collections gathered by the 
Hemenway expedition itself. 
Thirty-five hundred specimens were beautifully arranged in the 
exhibition held two years ago in Madrid to commemorate the four 
hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America. These specimens 
were intended to illustrate the habits of the natives of New Mexico 
` at the time of the landing of Columbus. They gained Mrs. Hemenway 
a personal letter of thanks from the Queen of Spain, and their curator 
the decoration of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. 
