90 ANNUAL REPORT SRCTHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1953 



During this same period 77 manuscripts were consulted, and 12 

 orders for microfilm and photostatic copies were filled. 



Numerous gifts of photographs and manuscripts were received 

 during the year. New linguistic materials accessioned included a 

 portion of a Ponca-English vocabulary and a number of hymns 

 translated in the Omaha language. This material, prepared in 1872 

 by J. O. Dorsey, was presented to the Bureau by Mrs. Virginia Dorsey 

 Lightfoot. A portion of an English-Choctaw vocabulary prepared 

 by Cyrus Byington about 1860 was presented by Donald D. McKay. 

 The Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio presented a news- 

 paper of 1874 in the Creek language. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



The time of the illustrator was spent in preparing and executing 

 illustrations and maps for Bureau and River Basin Surveys publica- 

 tions and for research associates, and making posters, graphs, charts, 

 diagrams, and maps, and repairing and altering illustrations for the 

 editorial division and other departments of the Institution. Floor 

 plans and front elevations also were executed for the Smithsonian 

 planning committee. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



There were issued 1 Annual Report, 5 Bulletins, and 3 Publications 

 of the Institute of Social Anthropology, as follows : 

 Sixty-ninth Annual Report of tlie Bureau of American Etlmology, 1951-1952. 



ii-f 30 pp. 1953. 

 Bulletin 145. The Indian tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton. vi-f726 



pp., 5 maps. 1952. 

 Bulletin 150. The modal personality structure of the Tuscarora Indians, as 

 revealed by the Rorschach test, by Anthony F. C. Wallace, viii+120 pp., 1 pi., 

 8 figs. 1952. 

 Bulletin 151. Anthropological Papers, Nos. 33^2. ix-f 507 pp., 37 pis., 25 figs., 

 7 maps. 1953. 

 No. 33. "Of the Crow Nation," by Edwin Thompson Denig. Edited, with 



biographical sketch and footnotes, by John C. Ewers. 

 No. 34. The water lily in Maya art : A complex of alleged Asiatic origin, by 



Robert L. Rands. 

 No. 35. The Medicine Bundles of the Florida Seminole and the Green Corn 



Dance, by Louis Capron. 

 No. 36. Technique in the music of the American Indian, by Frances 



Densmore. 

 No. 37. The belief of the Indian in a connection between song and the 



supernatural, by Frances Densmore. 

 No. 38. Aboriginal fish poisons, by Robert F. Heizer. 

 No. 39. Aboriginal navigation off the coasts of Upper and Baja California, 



by Robert F. Heizer and WiUiam O. Massey. 

 No. 40. Exploration of an Adena mound at Natrium, West Virginia, by 



Ralph S, Solecki. 

 No. 41. The Wind River Shoshone Sun Dance, by D. B. Shimkin. 



