ethnology , James Stevenson, Powell’s right-hand mao, Victor 
Mindeleff, young Mr* B lack, Mr. tarmac, Po?/ell's secretary, 
and myself. The party established a permanent camp in Sac 
Diego Valley or Canyon, a tributary of the Bio Grande, Hew 
Mexico, fifty miles west of Santa ]?e, with the village of 
Jeaez near by and the Jemez Mountains rising on the west. The 
members of the party were soon separated for carrying out their 
respective researches. 
I had the pleasure of examining fifteen important 
ruined pueblos and village sites. They correspond closely in type 
to those previously examined farther north and bear evidence 
in most cases of pre-Spanish occupation. Besides the larger 
village ruins there are a multitude of minor ones, small houses 
and lodges of stone, scattered through the forests. I had 
previously carried my investigations of the ruins of Colorado 
and Mew Mexico as far south as Abiquiu, which village lies at 
the northern end of the group of mountains in which the Bio 
Jemez takes its rise. My work of this year, therefore, enabled 
me to connect the studies of the northern localities with those 
of the south, in which the numerous modern pueblos are situated. 
The chain of observations thus secured we expected to be of value 
in the study of the art products of the vast region formerly oc- 
cupied by town-building tribes. 
Particular attention was given to an examination of the 
ceramic remains. These constitute one of the most important 
means of developing the history of the pre-Columbian inhabitants 
and a large series of specimens was forwarded to the National 
Museum. (pages XXIX - XXX. ) 
