APPENDIX 4. 

 REPORT ON THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Sir : In response to your request, I have the honor J o submit the 

 following report on the field researches, office work, and other opera- 

 tions of the Bureau of American Ethnology during the fiscal year 

 ended June 30, 1921, conducted in accordance with the act of Con- 

 gress approved June 5. 1920. The act referred to contains the fol- 

 lowing item : 



American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the 

 American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and 

 preservation of archeologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books 

 and periodicals, $44,000. 



In the expenditure of this money the chief has tried to cover the 

 field as economically as possible and to broaden the researches of 

 the bureau staff in order to include as many stocks of Indians as 

 the limited appropriation will allow. The science of ethnology is 

 so comprehensive and its problems so numerous and intricate that 

 to do this scientifically is extremely difficult. Work has been done 

 on the Algonquian, Iroquois, various members of the Muskhogean 

 stock, Kiowa, Pueblo, Osage, Pawnee, and others. The plan of 

 work embraces many different aspects of the cultural life of the 

 Indians, including their languages, social and religious customs, 

 music, mythology, and ritual. 



Researches have been made on the condition of the Indians in their 

 aboriginal state before or directly after the advent of the Europeans, 

 and the desire has been to increase the relative amount of field-work, 

 Archeological explorations have been prosecuted in Texas, Missouri. 

 Tennessee, Kentucky. Colorado, New Mexico, and the Hawaiian 

 Islands. This line of study is destined to become the most popular 

 in anthropology, and publications on the subject are always eagerly 

 sought by the correspondents of the bureau. 



To the development in recent years of the movement known as 

 " See America First " we owe in part the creation of a bureau of the 

 Department of the Interior called the National Park Service. Inci- 

 dentally the movement has stimulated a desire for research in both 

 ethnology and archeology. Several monuments and one national 

 park have been set aside by presidential proclamation to preserve 

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