Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-06-13
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region. recently returned to Washing
ton.
N. HOLSTER, naturalist in charge of
the party, is elated over the success of
the expedition, and states that the
new collection is quite complete and
covers practically all the birds and
animals inhabiting this previously I'M
worked territory. The party was
small one, consisting of four members.
including Mr.. HOLSTER. assistant curar
tor of mammals, and J. H. Riley of the
division of birds In the national mu-
scum.
Assembling at Edmonton, Alberta,
the party proceeded on the Grand
Trunk railroad to the end OF the line,
where they found it necessary to take
pack horses to penetrate the Mount
Robson region. The land to be sur
veyed included the territory lying
about this mountain in the heart OF
the Canadian Rockies, comprising the
most rugged and broken country mag
Unable. Amidst this wonderful scenery
Mount Robson rises In titanic outline,
the highest peak in the Rockies, prob
ably between 14,500 and $4,000 feet
high, and surrounding it for dis
lance of so miles in all directions
lies the field of the survey.
In this wild and unclaimed country
the party of naturalists remained near.
ly four months, protected by special
permits from the Canadian govern
ment. The natural history work was
divided, Mr.. HOLSTER and Mr.. Riley
collecting the birds and small animals,
while the other collectors hunted big
game. The collection includes some
900 specimens of birds and mammals,
the latter ranging in size from tiny
mole-like creatures, called "shews," to
fullgrown caribous and bears.
One enormous grizzly bear was OBJ
tanned by fortunate shot. Much fine
material for exhibition groups was Sc
cured, including series of caribou,
mountain goats, mountain sheep,
beavers and many varieties of smaller
animals. Besides birds and mammals.
large numbers Of plants and insects
were collected. ALI the specimens have
been turned over to the national mu-
scum and when the collection 10
worked up parts of it will be put on
exhibition.
F. w. Hodge, ethnologist In charge
of the bureau Of American ethnology
of the Smithsonian institution, has re-
turned to Washington from an expedi-
ton to New Mexico. conducted under
the joint auspices of the bureau and
the School of American Archaeology
at Santa Fe. Fairly in September Mr.
Hodge proceeded to Ell Moro, or In
scription Rock, In western New Mex
leo, where, with the assistance Of
Jesse L. Nusbaum of the School of
American Archaeology, paper impress
sions and photographs of the inscrip-
lions on the rock were made.
Ell MORO is an enormous sandstone
rock rising a couple of hundred feet
out of the plain, and eroded in such
fantastic forms as, to give it the APP
pearance of a great castle, hence its
Spanish name. A small spring former
ly existing at the rock made 1t a con-
venient place for the Spanish explorers
of the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turtles, and the smooth face of the 'cas-
tie" well adapted 1t to receive the
inscriptions of the conQuerors Of that
early period.
The earliest inscription, and his
torically the most important. is that
of Juan de Onate, colonizer of New
Mexico and the founder of the city of
Santa Fe In 1906. 1t was In this year
that Onate visited Ell MORO and
carved this inscription on his return
from a trip TO the head of the Gulf of
California.
There are 10 other Spanish inscrip-
lions of almost equal Importance.
among them that OF Don Diego de
Vargas, who. in 1892. reconquered the
Pueblo Indians after their rebellion
against Spanish authority In 1850. The
paper Impressions, or "squeezes." have
been transferred to the national mu-
scum. whore plaster casts shortly will
be made OF them for permanent pres
ervation.
Although Ell MORO has been made a
national monument by proclamation OF
the president. there is no local custo-
dian, consequently the rock is exposed
to vandalism. and the inscriptions. 30
important to the early history OF the
southwest, are ever threatened with
destruction by the thoughtless visitors,
who scratch their own Insignificant
names In dangerous proximity to these
old records Of early exploration.
Mr.. Hodge later Joined DR.. Edgar L.
Hewett, director OF the School OF
American Archaeology. on an expedi.
ton 10 the Jemez valley. about sixty
ave miles northwest of Albuquerque,
where excavations were conducted In
the ruins OF a large stone pueblo |
known as Amoxiumqua. which meas
ures about 1,1OO by 600 feet and Is |
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