56 REPOBT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Texas by Padre Morfi was taken up for annotation with a view to pul^lieation. The 

 historical annotation was kindly undertaken by Dr. George P. Garrison, of the Uni- 

 versity of Texas, and the manuscript was in his hands at the close of the year. 



COLLECTIONS. 



All of the collaborators engaged in field operations made more or less extensive 

 collections for study and for ultimate transfer to the United States National Museum. 

 By far the most extensive of these collections was that made by Mr. Mooney as a 

 means for the research in heraldry. This collection still remains in the field. Dr. 

 Russell collected a full series of objects representing the arts and industries of the 

 Pima Indians, including a series of baskets representing the more archaic as well as 

 the modern forms; among the unique objects comprised in the collection are two 

 calendric^ records intermediate in character between the winter counts of the North 

 and the maguey-book records of the South. Dr. Fewkes made considerable collec- 

 tions in New Mexico and Chihauhua early in the year, and subsequently obtained 

 an interesting series of aboriginal ol)jects in Porto Rico. As usual, various collec- 

 tions were obtained also by purchase under the more immediate direction of the 

 Secretary. 



PROl'ERTY. 



The property of the Bureau comprises (1) othce furniture and apparatus, (2) 

 ethnologic manuscripts and other original records, (3) photographs and drawings 

 of Indian subjects, (4) collections held temporarily by collaborators for use in 

 research, (5) a working library, and (6) undistributed residues of the editions of 

 the Bureau publications. There was little change in the amount or value of office 

 jiroperty during the year. Purchases of office furniture were inconsiderable; several 

 manuscripts were accpiired by purchase, mostly for inunediate publication, as noted 

 in jirevious paragraphs, while the records of original work ])rogressed steadily; about 

 855 negatives (glass and film), 2,050 prints, and a numl)er of drawings were added to 

 the collection of illustrative material, and an approximately proportionate (juantity 

 of illustrative material was used in the reports. Most of the collections of the year 

 have gone directly to the United States National Museum; some, like those of Mr. 

 Mooney, are still in use. The library has maintained a steady growth, chiefly 

 through exchanges, j^artly by the purcliase of current ethnologic books and early 

 records ]iertaining to the aborigines. The additions of the year comprise about 895 

 books and 150 pamphlets, raising the contents of the library to 11,339 books and 

 2,500 pamphlets. The number of back reports was reduced through the constantly 

 increasing pul)lic demands for ethnologic literature; nearly all of these documents 

 are now out of print. During the first lialf of the fiscal year Mr. J. Julius Lund con- 

 tinued in charge of the property as custodian; after Mr. Lund's resignation Mr. 

 Frank M. Barnett was appointed to this position. Miss Jessie V,. Thomas remains 

 in immediate charge of the library and Miss Ella Leary of the distribution of 

 documents. 



PUBLICATIONS. 



At the ]>eginning of the year Mr. IIerl)ert S. Wood had charge of the editorial 

 work; subsequently he was furloughed for several months, when Dr. Albert E. Jenks 

 assumed editorial duties in connection with his I'esearches; in June Mr. Wood 

 resumed his editorial cai)acity, and toward the end of May Mr. Elbert J. Benton was 

 temi)orarily added to tiie c()ri)s as editorial assistant. The second part of the Eight- 

 eenth Report was delivered from the bindery on January 7, and was inmie«liatelj' 

 distributed; Bulletin 2(5 was delivered on March 11, and, after brief holding in the 

 hope tl at the Nineteenth Report might be distributed at the same time, was sent out 

 to the exchanges about the end of the year; separnlc copio,'^ of the papers composing 



