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the more general work, iiicUiding the linguistic (•la8sific'ation desc^ribeil in other 

 paragraphs. 



Although occupied chiefly in adminstrative work, the Ethnologist in Charge made 

 a reconnaisance in eastern-central Colorado early in the fiscal year, visiting certain 

 archgeologic localities, notably in the vicinity of PueT^lo, Colo., and tracing the con- 

 ditions affecting tribal movements during prehistoric times about the borderland 

 between the peoples of the plains and those of the mountains and plateaus. 



On August 16, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes proceeded to southern Colorado and northern 

 New Mexico for the purpose of extending archteologic explorations in districts hith- 

 erto inade(iuately studied. His operations were extended southeastward through 

 New Mexico into western Texas and northern Chihuahua (Mexico); in the latter 

 State he made the most critical study thus far attempted of the extensive prehistoric 

 ruins known as Las Casas Grandes. Throughout, he made extended notes on the 

 surviving tribes, as well as on the various types of ruins and other relics, of which a 

 carefully selected collection was l)rought in on his return to the office on November 20. 



On April 28 Dr. Fewkes sailed for Porto Rico, with the object of making such a 

 reconnaissance of this and neighboring islands as might serve to throw light on those 

 aboriginal industries still surviving and giving promise of utility, and at the same 

 time form a basis for a more extended investigation during the current yeai-. 

 Although scarcely extended beyond Porto Rico, his work was successful, yielding 

 material for a special report. He returned to Washington and began the prepara- 

 tion of this report just before the close of the fiscal year. 



Mr. James Mooney proceeded, on September 17, to the field in Oklahoma and 

 Indian Territory, where he resumed a sjiecial investigation of the heraldic systems 

 employed among the Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, and Cheyenne tribes. His work con- 

 tinued throughout the fiscal year, yielding the greater part of the material recpiired 

 for an exhaustive monograph on one of the most interesting customs of the Ameri- 

 can aborigines. In connection with the study of the devices, a considerable objec- 

 tive collection was brought together for preservation in the National Museum. 



Throughout the entire fiscal year Dr. Frank Russell was in the field, chiefiy in 

 Arizona, though his operations extended into New Mexico and Colorado, and about 

 the close of the year into the Muskwaki habitat in Iowa. During the earlier 

 months he made an extended archseologic reconnaissance of the upper Gila Valley, 

 pushing his journey southward to the international boundary, westward to the 

 area already covered by other collaborators, and northward to the border of the 

 plateau country; thence the surveys were extended over the plateaus into Colorado 

 and New INIexico for the purpose of comparing the lowland antiquities with those of 

 the highlands. During winter and spring he located in the Pima country, near Saca- 

 ton, and began a systematic study of the industrial and other customs of the Pima 

 tribe. The work yielded material for a special report on the technology of the tribe 

 and for a more general monograph on the historic and prehistoric inhabitants of the 

 Gila Valley. 



On October 30 Dr. Albert S. Gatschet repaired to Indian Territory for the ])uriwse 

 of completing his Peoria vocabulary and grammar, and making cognate researches 

 among the few survivors of the Peoria tribe. Ho was al)le to perfect his records of 

 the language of the tribe during the ensuin<i: nionfb and bring his work to a success- 

 ful close about the middle of December. 



The beginning of the year found Dr. John ]\. Swanton engaged in researches 

 concerning the language and social organization of the Ilaida Indians in British 

 Columl)ia. This work continued until September, yielding voluminous material for 

 publication in future reports. On September ."lO he returned to ^^'ashington and 

 l)egan preparing the material for printing. 



Under the innnediate guidance of Dr. Franz Boas, philologist, Mr. H. H. St. Clair, 

 2(1, spent the first three months of the year in linguistic researclics in Wvomiu": 



