Some Tubar Indians were induced to come to Morelos to be measured and photographed.  The few representatives of the tribe I saw had good figures and small hands and feet.  They seemed to be shy, but rather kind-hearted, jolly people, resembling the Tarahumares in appearance.  They are found from the village of San Andres, three miles from Morelos, as far as the village of Tubares.  According to tradition their domain extended in former times much higher up on both sides of the river, to where Baborigame is now.  But they were gradually restricted to the locality on which the remnant of the tribe at present resides.  They are said to have been fierce and constantly fighting the Tarahumares.  There are now not more than a couple of dozen pure-bred Tubars left, and only five or six of these know their own language, which is related to the Nahuatl.  The name of the tribe as pronounced by themselves is Tuvalim.

Most of the Tubars are found in the pueblo of San Miguel, seventeen miles from Morelos, down the river.  An old woman told me that she did not know what the Tubars had done that they were disappearing from the world.  The few remaining members of the tribe were related to one another, and the young people had to marry Mexicans.  The customs of the Tubars evidently resembled much those of their neighbours, the Tarahumares, who until recent years invited them to their dances.  The Tubars danced yohe, and the dancers accompanied their singing by beating two flat sticks, like two machetes.  They did not use hikuli.  In the sacristy of the church in the old Tubar village of San Andres, I found a complete tesvino outfit, jars, spoons, etc., the vessels turned bottom up, ready for use.  The saints, too, must have tesvino, because they are greedy and exacting, and have to be propitiated.  The Tubars are said to have worn white girdles.

Mr. Hartman, whom I left in San Miguel to conclude some investigations, returned a few weeks later to the United States.  On the small plateaus near San Miguel, two hundred feet or more above the river, he found interesting old tombs, which were well known to the inhabitants under the name of bovedas.  The presence of a tomb was indicated on the surface by a circuit of stones from three to five feet in diameter set in the ground.  There were groups of ten or twelve circuits, and the tombs underneath were found at a depth of five or six feet.  They consisted of small chambers excavated in the clayey soil, and were well preserved, though they contained no masonry work; still at one place a yoke of oxen while dragging the plough had sunk down into the subterranean cavity.  The entrance to such a tomb is from one side, where a large slab, placed in a slanting position, protects the inside.  Nothing was discovered in the four tombs that were opened but some curious slate-coloured beads of burnt clay.  People of the district reported, however, that small jars of earthenware had been found