()4 KEPOKT OF THE SECRETAEY. 



in the preparation of a general map of the United States, showiug the 

 area of the mounds and the rehitive frequency of their occurrence. He 

 has since assisted Professor Thomas in the prejiaration of the monograph 

 upon the iuclosures. 



Mf. Victor Mindelefi", assisted by Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff, has been 

 engaged in preparing for publication a "Study of Pueblo Architecture" 

 as illustrated in the provinces of Tusayan and Cibola, material for which 

 be has been engaged in collecting for a number of years. This report 

 is now comi)leted, and will appear in the Seventh Annual Eeport of 

 the Bureau. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff and the 

 force of the modelling room completed the bureau exhibit for the Cin- 

 cinnati Exposition, and during the early part of the year Mr. Mindeleff 

 was at Cincinnati in charge of the same. Owing to restricted space 

 the exhibit was limited to the Pueblo culture group, but this was illus- 

 trated as fully as the time would permit. The exhibit covered about 

 1,200 feet of floor space as well as a large amount of wall space, and 

 consisted of models of pueblo and cliff ruins ; models of inhabited 

 pueblos, ancient and modern pottery, examples of weaving, basketry, 

 etc., a representative series of implements of war, the chase, agriculture, 

 and the household, manikins illustrating costumes, and a series of 

 large photographs illustrative of aboriginal architecture of the pueblo 

 region, and of many phases of pueblo life. Upon Mr. Mindeleff's re- 

 turn from Cincinnati he resumed assistance to Mr. Victor Mindeleff' 

 upon a report on pueblo architecture, and the close of the fiscal year 

 saw the two chapters which had been assigned him completed. They 

 consist of a review of the literature on the pueblo region and a sum- 

 mary of the traditions of the Tusayan group from material collected by 

 Mr. A. M. Stephen. Work was also continued on the duplicate series 

 of models, and twelve were advanced to various stages of completion. 

 Some time was devoted to repairing original models which had been 

 exhibited at Cincinnati and otlier expositions, and also to experiments 

 in casting in paper, in order to find a suitable i^aper for use in large 

 models. The experiments were successful. 



Mr. J. K. Hillers has continued the collection of photographs of prom- 

 inent Indians, in both full-face and ])rofile, by which method all the fa- 

 cial characteristics are exhibited to the best advantage. In nearly every 

 instance a record has been preserved of the sitter's status in the tribe, 

 the age, biographic notes of interest, and in case of mixed bloods the 

 degree of intermixture of blood. The total number of photographs ob- 

 tained during the year is 27, distributed among the following tribes, 

 viz: Sac and Fox, 5; Dakota, G j Omaha, 6, and mixed-bloods (Creeks), 

 10. 



