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Show ADMINISTBATTVE BEPOBT XV those near Phoenix and Tempe, and to indicate adobe houses with walls supported by logs and stones, clustered about a central building which served for protection or for ceremonial purposes. Pottery and other objects from these ruins were found to be identical with those from near Casa Grande. It was discovered that the ancient people of this valley sometimes buried their dead in their houses, but that the larger number were cremated. The calcined houses and ashes of the latter were placed in decorated jars and buried in pyral mounds. Remains of extensive prehistoric irrigating ditches, reservoirs, and terraced gardens show that the valley was extensively farmed in ancient times, and the large number of ruined houses indicate an extensive population. An instructive collection of pottery, beads, shells, and sacrificial objects was obtained from a cave in the mountains north of Pueblo Viejo. During a part of his field season Dr Fewkes had the cooperation of Mr F. W. Hodge, and during the entire summer the assistance of Dr Walter Hough, of the United States National Museum. The researches of Dr Fewkes conducted during this summer were remarkably successful, both in the extent and value of the collections acquired and in the archaeologic and ethnologic data recorded. Toward the end of September Mr James Mooney took the field in New Mexico, Texas, and contiguous Mexican states, for the purpose of collecting, among various tribes, information additional to that obtained among the Kiowa and Kiowa- Apache of Oklahoma concerning the primitive rites in which peyote ( more popularly known as " mescal") is used as a narcotic and stimulant. Incidentally to this work, Mr Mooney made a brief visit to a series of interesting pueblo ruins, attributed to the neighboring Tewa Indians, on a mesa 12 miles west of Espanola, above Santa Fe, on the Rio Grande, in New Mexico. These remains are of considerable local repute, but thus far they have not been seriously excavated. The Jicarilla Apache, numbering 850, on a reservation in northern New Mexico, were the next object of Mr Mooney's attention. This tribe formerly roamed over the section east of the mountains of New Mexico, on the headwaters of Arkansas and Canadian rivers, but affiliated with the Ute rather than |