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were forwarded to the National Museum in Washington, in compliance with the terms of the contract. Following is a list showing the collection number and also the Museum number.
National Museum number | |Bureau of Ethnology number | | | | Article | Number of specimens | | | | | | | Remarks --------+-----+---------------------+------+----------------------------- | | | | 155088 | 595 | Fragments of large | Lot. | Plain red on both sides. | | earthenware vessel. | | 155089 | 596 | Large bowl. | 1 | Red outside; black, polished | | | | inside; restored. 155090 | 597 | Large vase. | 1 | Decorated outside; restored. 155091 | 598 | Pottery fragments. | 14 | Decorated. 155092 | 599 | Pottery vase (toy). | 1 | Small, dark brown. 155093 | 600 | Pottery bowl (toy). | 1 | Small, black. 155094 | 601 | Pottery disk or | 4 | | | spindle. | | 155095 | 602 | Pottery toy | 1 | Dark brown. | | (mountain goat). | | | 603 | Adobe. | 2 | Lumps; 1 showing impression | | | | of cloth, the other of a | | | | human foot. | 604 | Small shells. | Lot. | | 605 | -- do -- | Lot. | | 606 | Small shells(lonus?)| Lot. | | 607 | Small shells (cut | Lot. | For use as pendants. | | and perforated). | | | 608 | Small shells, beads,| Lot. | 1 string and 2 fragments. | | and pendants. | | | 609 | Bone awls. | 3 | | 610 | Bone fragments. | 6 | Partly charred. | 611 | Chalk, obsidian | Lot. | | | chips, and brown | | | | adobe. | | | 612 | Charred wood, 2 | 4 | | | nuts, and a | | | | corncob. | | | 613 | Charred textiles, | 2 | | | cloth. | | | 614 | Wooden joist | 3 | 3, 6, and 9 inches long; | | fragments. | | 4 inches diameter. | 615 | Reed. | 1 | 12 inches long. | 616 | Stone axes. | 7 | And 3 broken, grooved. | 617 | Pounding stone and | 2 | Of sandstone, with | | fragment. | | ring-shaped handle. | 618 | Stone pestles | 2 | One 12? inches long, 1? | | | | inches diameter; one 9? | | | | inches long, 1? inches | | | | diameter; also a fragment | 619 | Stone mullers. | 4 | | 620 | Stone hammers. | 6 | 1 pitted. | 621 | Stone mullers, flat.| 6 | 5 broken. | 622 | Stone mortar, flat. | 1 | 6? by 12 inches; 2 inches | | | | thick. | 623 | -- do -- | 1 | 13 by 22 inches; 6 inches | | | | thick. | 624 | Stone, polished. | 1 | 22 inches long, 6? inches | | | | diameter; restored. | 625 | Stone hoes or | 2 | | | chopping knives. | | | 626 | Limestone ornament. | 1 | Carved; fragmentary. | 627 | Small stone vessel. | 1 | Serpent carved on the | | | | outside. | 628 | Stone arrowhead. | 2 | 1 of obsidian, very small, | | | | and 1 of flint; also a | | | | broken specimen.
Specimen number 627 B.E. was not obtained from the ruin itself, but was found in that vicinity by Mr Whittemore and presented by him.

EXHIBITS
I. CONTRACT FOR REPAIRING AND PRESERVING CASA GRANDE RUIN, ARIZONA
This contract, made and entered into this ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, between Theodore Louis Stouffer and Frederick Emerson White, both of Florence, Arizona, as principals, and Augustine Gray Williams, of Florence, Arizona, Andrew James Doran, of Florence, Arizona, as sureties, of the first part, and the United States of America, by Cosmos Mindeleff, acting for the Secretary of the Interior, of the second part:
Witnesseth, That the said parties of the first part do hereby contract and agree with the United States of America, as follows: That for the consideration hereinafter mentioned they will at their own expense and risk perform and execute the work upon the Casa Grande ruin, described and specified in the specification hereto annexed and forming a part hereof, in the manner and with the conditions specified, items of said work to be as follows:
Item No. 1. Clearing out the d��bris: To excavate and remove 350 cubic yards of earth and d��bris, or less, as specified, amount of excavation not to exceed 350 cubic yards.
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