Arizona republican., 1920-11-20
NAVAJO POTTERY AND RARE CHINA ADDED
 ID J. IF 4. MUSEUM

Many new additions have been made to the state museum at the university since the close of school last June The collection of old pueblo pottery has almost been tripled and many new and rare examples of the work of the ancient civilization of Arizona are now exhibited. There have also been loaned to the museum several very fine ex- hibits of old English and Dresden chinaware
 The most important thing that has been accomplished by the museum thls summer was our exploration trip through the unknown parts of north ern Arizona" said Dean Byron Cum mings. curator of the museum. We accomplished two very important things on our trip this summer. First we explored new territory that I think no white man had ever visited before That country ip the region west of Navajo mountains is so rough and so sterile that few have ever wished to try to find just what lay behind that curtain of the desert.
 Tt is practically unknown. even to geologists, and is made up of deep box canyons that are tributary to the Colo rado river. The land between these canyons is a barren, sandy waste, with little buffalo grass and a few iso lated pueblos that have long since been abandoned. It is the land that for merly belonged to the Flutes, before they were driven out by the NavajoS. The Navajos know that they do not really own the land and so put every obstacle at their command in the path of the explorer in fear that were the white men to find that there was rich country in the vicinity their last stronghold would be taken from them.
 
 explored country continued Dean Cummings, we went up Nitsie canyon into Jayi canyon. From Jayi we worked our way into Sayi canyon over some of the toughest country that we could have possibly encountered and still kept our horses and pack animals. At the head of Sayi canyon we found ourselves at the foot of our objective, the Daeska msa. We had been able to see the mesa from our base at Kayanta, but had been told by the In dians of the country that 1t was use less to try to reach the top. as there was no trail and there was nothing on the top when we reached there.
 "We found one very narrow rough trail at the foot of the mesa. The trail was so narrow that we were obliged to leave our horses at the foot and pro- ceed to the top on foot, carrying what provisions we expected to need on our backs. As final attempt to keep us from starting toward the top" went on the deans tour Indian guide told us that there was no water to be found after we left the canyon, but he could not stop us from going. We could spend but one day on top of the mesa, as we had provisions for only that length of time, so we had to make very fast explorations. Just after we reached the top we found water hole, so that we did not lack water any time during the day.
 From Yayanta the mesa had looked to be long and quite narrow, but on reaching the top we found that in some places it was almost two miles wide and about ten miles long. There was quite little vegetation on top and we afterwards found out that the Maya jos used this place to keep their stock in the winters when the grass had failed in the valleys below. Our guide