Viewing page 121 of 127

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

202

re-written February 6, 1905.
Jan 31, 1905

Professor Marshall H. Saville,
American Museum of Natural History.

My dear prof. Saville:-

I take pleasure in presenting herewith a record of the Department of the Southwest for the last half of 1904.

During the month of July the undersigned was engaged in the general routine work of the Department, especially the preparation of the card catalogue of Southwestern pottery. During the latter part of July his attention was given to the preliminaries for the field work in the Southwest.

He left the Museum August 6th, his objective point being the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. En route for this point he stopped at the Fair in St. Louis, where the various collections were studied, also at the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. The major portion of the work in the Southwest was carried on in the region of Ganado, Arizona. At this point the weaving industry of the Navajos was investigated. The writer was fortunate on enough to procure the services of the best interpreter on the Reservation, and through him was able to interview the medicine men, old weavers and a number of the chiefs of the tribe. During these investigations, notes were type-written by the wife of the undersigned, and manifold copies were sent to the Museum, thereby insuring