INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 
In 1910 Dr. Adolph F. A. Bandelier published his Documentary History 
of the Rio Grande Pueblos: Bibliographic Introduction . 1 In this intro¬ 
duction Dr. Bandelier outlined his plan for a proposed larger work con¬ 
cerning the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. In pursuance of this plan, 
and under a grant made by the trustees of the Carnegie Institution of 
Washington in October, 1911, he spent parts of the years 1912 and 1913 
in research in the Archivo General in Mexico City. 2 In the latter part 
of 1913, under the same grant continued, Dr. and Mrs. Bandelier went to 
Spain to search in the Archivo de Indias at Seville for further materials 
concerning the Pueblo Indians. At the time Dr. Bandelier was in bad 
health, and his own work in those archives continued only till December 
18, but under his direction Mrs. Bandelier made researches and copied 
documents designated by him. On March 18, 1914, Dr. Bandelier died 
in Seville, before he had been able to accomplish more than a minor part 
of the work which he had undertaken. Mrs. Bandelier, however, con¬ 
tinued until the end of 1915, under the auspices of the Institution, the 
work of research and of copying documents in the archives. The entire 
collection of transcripts made both in Mexico and in Spain was then turned 
over by her to the Institution. 
The materials thus delivered consist of two distinct parts, a bound 
volume of about five hundred pages and a collection of unbound tran¬ 
scripts amounting in all to some nine hundred pages. The bound volume 
contains seventy-two transcripts made by Dr. and Mrs. Bandelier in 
Mexico City in 1912 and 1913. About half of these, however, are copies 
or extracts from printed books, evidently made for subsidiary use in the 
future; the rest are transcripts of documents in the Archivo General in 
Mexico City. The nine hundred pages of unbound transcripts were all 
made in Seville. 
In view of the circumstances under which the work was done, it was 
natural that the material copied should have little unity or organization. 
As a matter of fact it is confessedly miscellaneous. Many of the docu¬ 
ments were, in a sense, casual finds; many were merely supplementary 
to documents already discovered by Dr. Bandelier in the course of his 
earlier researches. Sometimes only fragments of documents and parts of 
expedientes were copied; this is particularly true of the materials copied 
in Mexico City from the papers of the Inquisition, and of the group of 
1 Papers of the School of American Archaeology, no. 13 (Cambridge, 1910). 
2 Report in Year Book No. 11 (for 1912), pp. 258-260, No. 12 (for 1913), p. 294. 
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