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This material was examined, read, and classified. The photographs 

 were turned over to their proper custodian in the Bureau for filing 

 and record. The pamphlets and other printed matter were disposed 

 of in like manner. The manuscript was read and classified in sepa- 

 rate filing jackets. Many historical references in these manuscripts 

 were checked for accuracy. 



An extensive research was made into the writings of most of the 

 early discoverers and explorers of the North American continent, 

 beginning with the Norsemen, in order to determine the extent to 

 which and the localities in which the sign language was used by the 

 North American Indians. It was ascertained, as far as the records 

 which have been examined to date reveal, that the sign language 

 was confined to the buffalo-hunting tribes of the plains west of the 

 Mississippi River, and to tribes adjacent to the plains who made 

 seasonal hunts into the buffalo country. This confirms the state- 

 ments made by General Scott in his manuscripts. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



The editing of the publications of the Bureau was continued 

 through the year by Stanley Searles, editor. 



BULLETINS ISSUED DURING THE TE.\R 



lis. An Archaeological Survey of the Norris Basin in Eastern Tennessee, by 

 William S. Webb. 



119. Anthropological Papers, Nos. 1-6. No. 1, A Preliminary Report on 

 Archeological Explorations at Macon, Ga., by A. R. Kelly. No. 2, The Northern 

 Arapaho Flat Pipe and the Ceremony of Covering the Pipe, by John G. Carter. 

 No. 3, The Caribs of Dominica, by Douglas Taylor. No. 4, What Happened 

 to Green Bear Who Was Blessed With a Sacred Pack, by Truman Michelson. 

 No. 5, Lemhi Shoshoni Physical Therapy, by Julian H. Steward. No. 6, 

 Panatiibiji', an Owens Valley Palute, by Julian H. Steward. 



120. Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups, by Julian H. Steward. 



121. Archeological Remains in the Whitewater District, Eastern Arizona. 

 Part I, House Types, by Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr. 



122. An Archaeological Survey of Wheeler Basin on the Tennessee River in 

 Northern Alabama, by William S. Webb. 



123. Anthropological Papers, Nos. 7-12. No. 7, Archeological Investigations 

 in the Corozal District of British Honduras, by Thomas and Mary Gann. No. 8, 

 Linguistic Classification of Cree and Montngnais-Naskapi Dialects, by Truman 

 Michelson. No. 9, Sedelmayr's Relaclon of 1746, translated and edited by 

 Ronald L. Ives. No. 10, Notes on the Creek Indians, by J. N. B. Hewitt, edited 

 by John R. Swanton. No. 11, The Yaruros of the Capanaparo River, Venezuela, 

 by Vincenzo Petrullo. No. 12, Archeology of Arauquin, by Vincenzo Petrullo. 



IN PRESS 



101. War Ceremony and Peace Ceremony of the Osage Indians, by Francis 

 La Flesche. 



124. Nootka and Quilente Music, by Frances Densmore. 



125. Ethnography of the Fox Indians, by William Jones, edited by Margaret 

 Welpley Fisher. 



