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Show REPORT OF THE OOMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ' 37 eological remains "lying south of the Santa Fe Railroad in Apache and Navajo counties in Arizona, the part of this area being within the White Mountain Indian Reservation and the forest reserves." The Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology was consulted ns to whether some arrangement could be made whereby this society could be put upon a working basis with the Government scientists; He answered that the institute was composed of leading archeolo-gists, and had among its members persons fully qualified to conduct excavations in a scientific manner and to care properly for the col-lections obtained, and that the cooperation of the Southwest Society with his Bureau would be welcomed and might be of considerable aid to the Government. In its report of September 25, 1905, to the Department, the Office said: The O0ice has had no reason to change its views with reference to the duty of the Department to protect the valuable archeological objects within Indian reservations and other Government lands; and it is not satisfied that the Department could legally grant permission to persons or organizations to enter. reservations for the purpose of excavating for and carrying away objects of archeological value unleas collecting for or under the supervision of the Gov-ernment. The esteem in which the Smithsonian Institution and the Bureau of American Ethnology hold the Southwest Society is such that no reasonable objection could be raised against permitting it to undertake the proposed work under the supervision of the Government. * * a It is recommended that permission be granted the Southwest Society of the Archeological Institute of America to conduct archeological explorations and make excavations an Indian reservations in the Southwest upon the conditfon 'that such work is to be done under the oversight of, and in cooperation with, the Bureau of American Ethnology. This recommendation was approved by the Department on Sep-tember 28,1905, and on October 23 the Bureau of Ethnology submit-ted a proposition for securing the stipulated cooperation between the Government and the society. 'The plan, which met the approval of the Office, contained the following conditions: 1. That this society shall file with the Bureau of American Ethnology a brfef but measurably definite plan of the explorations proposed on the Indian reservations, designating the person who is to have immediate charge of the field work. 2. That it shall furnish data for use in compiling the card catalog of antiquities now in preparation by your Bureau and for properly mapping the sites of the explorations and excavations. 3. That it shall adopt a liberal policy of exchange, to the end that each par-ticipating institution may share in the benefits of the others. 4. (a) That thoro work shall be done on each site occupied: ( b ) that full notes shall he taken for a catalog of antiquities, and (c) that the results obtained by all expeditions shall he 'made known within a reasonable time thru published reports. The secretary of the Southwest Society accepted these condi-tions, and letters of introduction to the superinten-d ents and agents |