ANTHROPOLOGY 



Loubat; and continued from 1898 to 1903 through the liberality of 

 Dr. F. E. Hyde. 



The mounds and burial places of Mason County, Kentucky, were Ohio and 

 explored by Mr. Harlan I. Smith in 1895, while similar work was Kentuck v- 

 carried on in Licking County, Ohio, by Dr. George A. Dorsey and 

 Mr. C. L. Metz in 1895, resulting in the addition of an important series 

 from these regions. 



The ancient inhabitants of the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona, Southwest, 

 and the cliff dwellings of Colorado and Utah are well represented in the 

 Museum's collections. For this material the Museum is largely in- 

 debted to the Messrs. B. Talbot B. Hyde and Frederick E. Hyde, Jr., b. t. b. Hyde 

 whose desire that the Museum should have an extensive and authentic f"^ F \ E * 



Hyde, Jr., 



collection from the cliff houses, ancient pueblos, burial caves, and Expedition, 

 mounds led to their supporting expeditions in New Mexico, Arizona, 

 Utah, and Colorado, covering a period of several years. The result 

 included a large series of archaeological objects from the pueblos and 

 skeletons from the prehistoric Pueblo Bonito and other ruins and 

 burial places of New Mexico, and prehistoric objects from burial caves 

 in Utah. The field work was in charge of the Curator of the Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology, Prof. F. W. Putnam. Members of the expedi- 

 tion at various times were Mr. F. E. Hyde, Jr., Mr. Richard Wetherell, 

 Prof. R. E. Dodge, Dr. A. Hrdlicka, F. W. Putnam, G. H. Pepper, W. 

 Orchard. In addition to the results obtained by their expeditions, 

 the Messrs. Hyde have purchased and presented several important col- 

 lections; one of great scientific interest was that collected by Mr. 

 Richard Wetherell from the cliff houses and caves of the Grand Gulch 

 region of Utah. It contained mummies and funeral objects of a 

 people evidently distinct from, and who probably preceded the build- 

 ers of the ancient stone pueblos and cliff houses. The accessions from 

 the southwest also include a collection of pottery from the modern 

 pueblos, gathered by Mr. Pepper on an expedition in 1903, which was 

 financed by Messrs. B. T. B. Hyde, F. E. Hyde, Jr., and Robert 

 W. de Forest. 



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