HISTORY OF THE MUSEUM 
Ohio and 
Kentucky. 
B. T. B. Hyde 
and F. E. 
Hyde, Jr., 
Expedition. 
Southwest. 
The ^mounds and burial places in Mason County, Kentucky, were 
explored by Mr. Harlan I. Smith in 1895, while similar work was 
carried on in Licking County, Ohio, by Dr. George A. Dorsey, and 
in Hamilton County by Mr. C. L. Metz in 1895, resulting in the ad- 
dition of an important series from these regions. 
The largest collection of Michigan archseological remains in any mu- 
seum was collected in the Saginaw Valley by Mr. Harlan I. Smith and 
was presented by him in 1896. 
The ancient inhabitants of the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona, 
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., 
whose desire that the Museum should have an extensive and authentic 
collection from the cliff houses, ancient pueblos, burial caves, and 
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 archseological objects from the pueblos and 
skeletons from the prehistoric Pueblo Bonito and other ruins and 
burial places of New Mexico, and from burial caves in Utah. The field 
work was in charge of the Curator of the Department of Anthropology 
Prof. F. W. Putnam. Members of the expedition 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, and W. Orchard. In addition 
to the results obtained by their expeditions, the Messrs. Hyde have pur- 
chased and presented several important collections; one of great scien- 
tific 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 builders of the ancient stone pueblos and 
cliff houses. The accessions from the southwest also include a collec- 
tion 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 Mrs. Robert W. de Forest. 
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