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[[underline]] Colorado. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Horace Beach, Prairie du Chiem, Wisconsin. [[/underline]] A cast of a sculptured foot-track. The original was cut out from the rock [[underline]] in situ [[/underline]] near Colorado Springs.

[[underline]] New Mexico. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] J.M. Shields, Jemez, Bernalillo County. [[/underline]] A clay pipe of unusual form from a ruined pueblo at Jemez Springs.

[[underline]] Arizona. [[/underline]]

[[underline]] E. Palmer, U.S. National Museum. [[/underline]] Collection from ruins on the Rio Verde, Maricopa County: Leaf-shaped implements, arrow-heads, grooved axes (single and double-edged), grooved mauls, hammer-stones, small and large metates, paint-mortars, paint-mullers, pebbles used in forming the bottom and sides of clay vessels, polishing-stones, stone digging-tools, stone balls used in games, a stone ring, shell pendants and gorgets, bone perforators, a wooden club, clay vessels (plain and painted), and fragments of pottery. 198 specimens.

According to Mr. Palmer, "the ruins are situated about 60 miles north of Phoenix, in a locality known as the Lower Verde Settlement. They are located on the west bank of the river, on a mesa 125 high, and contain 175 contiguous rooms, on an average 30 feet long, 14 wide, and originally about 10 feet high. The floors are of clay, and the walls built of irregular pieces of stone laid up with