APPENDIX 4 



REPORT ON THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Sir: The following report on the field researches, office work, and 

 other operations of the Bureau of American Ethnology during the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, 1928, is herewith submitted. This work 

 was conducted in accordance with the act of Congress approved 

 February 11, 1927, which contains the following item : 



American ethnology : For continuing ethnological researches among the Ameri- 

 can Indians and the natives of Hawaii, the excavation and presentation of 

 archeologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, includ- 

 ing necessary employees, the preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustra- 

 tions, the purchase of books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $58,720, 

 of which amount not to exceed $48,000 may be expended for personal sen'ices in 

 the District of Columbia. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief of the bureau since March 1, 1918. 

 continued to occupy that position until January 15, 1928, when he 

 retired as chief but continued on the staff of the bureau as associate 

 anthropologist. 



The general j^rogram of the bureau for the entire year has been 

 similar to that of the last fiscal year. 



Doctor Fewkes's scientific work has been mainly devoted to the 

 preparation of a report on his excavations at Elden Pueblo, Ariz., 

 made during the summer of 1926. 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, completed the proof reading 

 of his papers on the Social Organization and Social Usages of the 

 Indians of the Creek Confederacy, the Religious Beliefs and Medical 

 Practices of the Creek Indians, The Culture of tlie Southeast, and 

 a paper by the late William E. Myer on Trails of the Southeast, all 

 of which have appeared in the forty-second annual report of the 

 bureau, and of a short paper on the Social and Religious Usages 

 of the Chickasaw Indians which is to appear in the forty-fourth 

 annual report. He spent some time in continuing the preparation 

 of a tribal map of aboriginal North America north of Mexico and 

 the text accompanying, and assisted in the preparation for publica- 

 tion of James Mooney's paper on The Aboriginal Population of 

 America North of Mexico, which appeared as volume 80, No. 7, of 

 the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 



Work in connection with the Timucua dictionary, with the help 

 of Miss Tucker, was continued during most of the year. In 192G, 

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