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Title: Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian Institution..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Scientific expeditions
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ve many of their ancient dances and secularcustoms. The slightly known ruins of this region were found to be ofpractically the same type as Casa Grande on the Gila, suggesting asouthern extension of this type of architecture into ^Mexico. Theprehistoric moimds would well repay systematic excavation, and 84 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS \0L. 66 would yield much material bearing on the diffusion of culture of theancient people of our Southwest. The object of the visit was areconnoissance, which was successfully completed. There are largemounds indicating compounds of considerable size between CasaGrande and Vekol, near Quijotoa, and at the Kwahadt settlements. Having made the brief reconnoissance above mentioned, Dr.Fewkes returned to Deming, New Mexico, and undertook an exam-ination of ruins along the ^limbres River, inspecting various archeo-logical sites as far north as Silver City. He obtained by purchasevaluable additions to collections of the characteristic pottery of this
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Fig. 102.—Decorated pottery from Mimbres Valley. Heye Collection, a. un-identified animal; b. bee ; c, d, unidentified composite animals. region, from Oldtown and elsewhere (figs. 102-111). One ofthe most striking objects examined is a rare turquoise mosaic withfour figures representing flowers (fig. loi). The culture of theMimbres Valley as shown by archeological data is distinctive, with nolikeness to that of the lower Gila, but connecting that of the upperGila with Casa Grandes in Chihuahua. The prehistoric culture ofMimbres Valley, like that of the Santa Cruz, is destined to i)lay animportant role in determining diffusion of Southwestern culture. Important work was carried on by Dr. Fewkes during the lastyear in the Mesa Verde National Park, where the Department of theInterior is cooperating with the Smithsonian Institution in the excava-tion and repair of cliff-houses and other ;)rehistoric ruins, to increase NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I915 85

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