G4 REPORT OF THE 8ECRETARY. 



wLiob, 11 "Chant upon the Mountaius," will appear in the Filth Aunual 

 Keport. 



Mr. W. n. Holmes coutiniieil his worli in the office (luring- the >ear, 

 superintending the illustration of the various publications of the Bureau. 

 His scientific studies have been confined principally to the field of Ameri- 

 can art archaeology. Two fully illustrated papers have been finished 

 and will appear in the Sixth Annual lieport of the Bureau. They are 

 upon "Ancient Art of the Province of Chiriqui, Colombia," and "A 

 Study of the Textile Art in its Eelatious to the Development of Form 

 ami Ornament." Mr. Holmes has, in addition, continued his duties as 

 curator of aboriginal pottery in the Natioual Museum. 



The office work of Mr. Victor Mindelefl" for the year has consisted of 

 the preparation of reports on the Tusayan and Cibola architectural 

 groups. These, when completed, are to be fully illustrated by a series 

 of plans and drawings now being prepared from the field-notes and other 

 material. In this work it is proposed to discuss the architecture in de- 

 tail, i^articularly in the case of the modern pueblos, where many of the 

 constructional devices of the old builders still survive. The examina- 

 tion of these details will be found to throw light on obscure features of 

 many ruined pueblos whose state of preservation is such as to exhibit 

 but little detail in themselves. 



In connection with the classification and arrangement of new material 

 from Caiion de Chelly, a paper on the clifi-ruius of this region was i^re- 

 l)ared. 



The modeling-room during the past year has been in charge of Mr. 

 Cosmos Mindeleff. Upon his return from the field a series of models to 

 illustrate the Chaco ruins, architecturally the most important in the 

 Southwest, was commenced. Two of these, viz, the ruin of Wejegi and 

 that of a small pueblo near Pueblo Alto, have been finished and dupli- 

 cates have been deposited in the National Museum. The third, a very 

 large model of Penasco Blanco, is still uncompleted. All of these 

 models are made from, entirely new surveys, made in the summer of 1884. 

 The scale used in the previous series — the inhabited pueblos and the 

 cliff-ruins — though larger than that usually adopted for this class of 

 work, has shown so much more detail and has proven generally so sat- 

 isfactory, that it has been continued in the Chaco Ruin group, bringing 

 the entire series of models made by the Bureau to a uniform scale of 

 1.60, or 1 inch to 5 feet. In addition to this the work of duplicating 

 the existing models of the Bureau for purposes of exchange was com- 

 menced. Three of these have been completed, and two others are about 

 half finished. 



Mr. E. W. Nelson was engaged upon a report of his investigations* 

 among the Eskimo tribes of Alaska. A part of this report consisting 

 of an English-Eskimo dictionarj' , he has already forwarded. 



As hereinafter explained, the year was principally devoted to the syu- 



