Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. ioi.—Turquoise mosaic (a. front: /, back) from Mimbres Valley, NewMexico. Original inch square. Heye Collection. Drawing by Mrs. R. of early communication between Mexico and southern Arizona. Heregards the region west of the Santa Crtiz as one of the most im-portant unworked ethnological and archeological fields in the South-west. Little has been recorded on the prehistoric remains in thisregion and there is still much to be learned of the modern inhabitantswhose culture has been little modified by t
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. ioi.—Turquoise mosaic (a. front: /, back) from Mimbres Valley, NewMexico. Original inch square. Heye Collection. Drawing by Mrs. R. of early communication between Mexico and southern Arizona. Heregards the region west of the Santa Crtiz as one of the most im-portant unworked ethnological and archeological fields in the South-west. Little has been recorded on the prehistoric remains in thisregion and there is still much to be learned of the modern inhabitantswhose culture has been little modified by the influence of civilizationand wdio still preserve 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 thean
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