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northward from Tucson, crossing the Gila near Florence, skirting the base 

 of Superstition Mountains, and traversing Tonto Valley; a number of 

 cliff houses and other ruins were discovered, but the journey was not com- 

 pleted at the end of the fiscal year. 



In June an arrangement was effected with Mr. O. P. Phillips and the 

 Armat Moving-Picture Company, under which Mr. Phillips proceeded to 

 New Mexi('0 and Arizona for the purpose of making motion pictures rep- 

 resenting the industries, amusements, and ceremonies of the Pueblo and 

 other tribes, it being anticipated that such pictures would prove of especial 

 service for purposes of immediate research as well as for permanent record 

 The preliminary reports indicate that the work has been successfully 

 initiated. 



Throughout the fiscal year Dr. Willis E. Everett remained in Alaska, 

 pursuing his avocation of mining engineer, but availing himself of oppor- 

 tunities for ofcserving the native tribes and recording their languages and 

 other activital characteristics. Several reports indicating progress in the 

 collection of such material were received in the course of the year. 



Dr. Robert Stein, who spent the winter of 1899-1900 on Elsmereland, 

 primarily for purposes of geographic exploration, but incidentally to make 

 search for traces of aboriginal occupancy in the interests of the Bureau, 

 reported via Dundee, through the courtesy of masters of whaling vessels, 

 late in the summer of 1900. He found no traces of Eskimo or other settle- 

 ments in the territory traversed by him, comprising the eastern coast 

 of Elsmereland, and his negative evidence is of service in investigations 

 relating to the distribution and migrations of the Eskimo. At the time 

 of the last report he was preparing to cross Baffin Bay to Upernivik, on the 

 western coast of Greenland, with the expectation of extending his pre- 

 vious observations on prehistoric Eskimo settlements along the unexplored 

 coast. 



During the autumn Miss Alice C. Fletcher found it necessary to revisit 

 Oklahoma for the purpose of completing the ritual of the Pawnee cere- 

 mony, known as the Hako, of which the greater portion was collected 

 during the last fiscal year. In connection with the collection of this mate- 

 rial she was fortunate in obtaining also nuich additional information touch- 

 ing the ceremonial and ritualistic life of this highly interesting and little- 

 studied tribe. 



Office Research. 



work in esthetology. 



In addition to administrative duties in the office and the field work noted, 

 Mr. McGee engaged in researches relating to the primitive symbolism 

 found among the American aborigines and other lowly jaeoples. Certain 

 symbols are of nearly world-wide distribution, and extend into several 

 stages of culture — e. g., the swastika, or fylfot, appears on all of the conti- 

 nents except Australia, and its culture range extends at least from higher 

 savagery into the lower strata of civilization. Before the extremely wide 

 range of such symbols was ascertained various inquirers were led to regard 

 the swastika as an evidence of cultural identity, and hence of the original 



