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Arrived Aug. 19/19 . MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN HEYE FOUNDATION BROADWAY AT 155TH STREET NEW YORK GEORGE G. HEYE CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTOR OFFICE OF F.W. HODGE Camp Harmon, Sunday, August 10/'19. Dear Pep: I am glad to have your letter, which came last evening, and to know that everything prospers at the Museum. The band of "Cook tourists" have come and gone, and George and Harmon particularly expressed themselves as well pleased with the results of the season;s work thus far. One of the most important of these is the discovery, beyond any question any question, that Ketchipauan was one of the Seven Cities of Cibola: its culture is identical with that of Hawikuh, the burial customs virtually the same, so far as our excavations have gone, and we find the same kinds of Spanish objects in the graves, while all the pottery taken from Ketchipauan (and there has been a good bit) might have come just as well from Hawikuh---so there you are! At Hawikuh we have cleared out, or are in the process of clearing sixty-five rooms, and already they have revealed a good deal of information of value, besides some very interesting collections. Only yesterday we recovered a pottery effigy of a female bear, hollow and erect, standing six inches, as well as a bone implement carved in the form of a centipede. Yesterday also we uncovered here at Hawikuh more than twenty cremations the shallow cemetery where we were working at the time you arrived last summer, you will remember; most of these burials were made in little pot-shaped pits just under the surface, but others were in jars with usual bowl covers. We fine cremations also at [[/strikethrough]] Hawikuh [[/strikethrough]] Katchipauan. Jess has almost cleaned out a house that has been destroyed by fire, in the main, but the falling of the upper floors smothered the flames and preserved a good many objects that otherwise would have decayed beyond recovery. Altogether the work has proceeded very satisfactorily and when we close at the end of the month I think we may well regard the season as a very successful one. Indeed George regards the results as a very successful one. Indeed George regards the results of this year as more important than those of 1918, that is, from the point of view of collections. By the way, I spoke to Lorenzo about your 'chaps' the first time I saw him and he told me then that he "must attend to it right away," but, Indian like, he evidently has put it off. shall mention the matter to him again as soon as I see him. Oh, yes! I forgot to mention that Harmon got along famously in camp; he took everything as it came like an old campaigner and got along splendidly in every way, all the while enjoying the very best of health. We were all sorry to see them go. We had a bigger dance than last year and a fine foot-race early in the afternoon of the same day. I think our guests enjoyed their visit very much. The