River. The collection secured at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon by 
the Hyde Expedition fills the remainder of the alcove. 
The second archaeological alcove farther down the hall has the Hyde 
collections from Grand Gulch, Utah, with prehistoric basketry and other 
textiles of great interest; pottery from Casas Grandes, Mexico, and from 
Mimbres Valley, New Mexico; a large wall case with collections from 
the Mesa Verde and Little Colorado; and, in particular, pottery from 
the Aztec ruin. 
The present-day Pueblo villages are represented by three alcoves. 
First is an exhibit from the Rio Grande Valley of material collected and 
arranged by Dr. Herbert J. Spinden. In the middle of the west side of 
the hall is a collection from the Hopi villages, made chiefly by Mr. Voth. 
At the northern end of the hall are exhibits from Zuii, secured chiefly 
by Drs. Parsons and Kroeber; a few Acoma specimens; and an exhibit 
illustrating the making of pottery. 
On the east side of the hall at the northern end is an aleove devoted 
to California. <A large wall case contains a comparative exhibit of bas- 
ketry. The next alcove contains a small collection from the Pima and 
Papago. The middle alcove is nearly filled with Navajo blankets, illus- 
trating the various types of weaving. At the southern end are two 
alcoves; one for the Apache of Arizona and one for the eastern Apache 
who with their neighbors the Rio Grande Pueblos had considerable con- 
tact with the people and culture of the Plains tribes. 
On the east in three side-rooms are groups with painted bickeaeree” 
The first represents an Apache camp in the San Carlos Valley. The 
second, which is now nearing completion, shows a Night Chant of the 
Navajo. The setting is the Canyon de Chelly in a wall of which is 
White House, a beautifully preserved cliff-ruin. Within the sacred hogan 
is shown a sand painting, used for the curing of a sick man. The third 
group presents the pueblo of Walpi on the first of the Hopi mesas. 
The collections in this hall have been obtained chiefly by Museum 
expeditions and donations. The Hyde Expedition resulted in a great 
number of archeological specimens, many of which are still in storage. 
Since 1909 there have been obtained by funds provided by Archer M. 
Huntington for the study of the primitive peoples of the Southwest, the 
ethnological collections from the Rio Grande and Hopi pueblos and from - 
the Apache, Pima, and Papago tribes; and the archaeological specimens 
from Aztec, the Galisteo historic and prehistoric ruins, and from Old 
Cochiti. A large number of the baskets were donated by Dr. James 
Douglas; the Navajo blankets represent the generosity of Mrs. Russell 
Sage and the late J. Pierpont Morgan. 
The California collections were acquired by the Huntington Expedi- 
tion, conducted by Dr. Roland B. Dixon; by the purchase of the Briggs 
collection of baskets through the generosity of George Foster Peabody; 
by the work of Miss Constance Goddard DuBois in southern California; 
and through exchanges. 
