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charge, as leader; Mr. DeLaneey Gill, artist; Prof. R. H. Forbes, of the 

 Territorial University of Arizona (during part of the trip); Senor Aurelio 

 Mata, a Mexican customs officer sent from the custom-house at Nogales to 

 facilitate the crossing at the international boundary; John J. Carroll, of 

 Tempe, teamster; Jim Moberly, of Tempe, packer; Hugh Norris, of Tucson, 

 Papago interpreter, and Ramon Zapeda, of Tucson, Mexican interpreter. 

 The Bureau was placed under great obligations for free entry of the outfit 

 to the Government of the neighboring Republic through the officials 

 already named, as well as through Senor Don Eduardo J. Andrade, of 

 Yuma, custodian of the Andrade grant, covering the territory occupied by 

 the Cocopa Indians. 



On August 11 Mr. James Mooney proceeded to the old Cherokee coun- 

 try in western North Carolina and adjacent territory for the purpose of 

 collecting additional data required for the completion of his series of papers 

 on the Cherokee Indians, and his field operations continued with success 

 until early December. On Api'il 25 he made a reconnoissance trip through 

 eastern North Carolina and Virginia for the purpose of locating remnants 

 of aboriginal tribes still surviving in the wooded and nearly inaccessible 

 districts of that region; he revisited the Pamunkey tribe and discovered 

 considerable remnants of the Chickahominy, Mattaponi, and Nansemond 

 tribes. 



On his appointment as assistant ethnologist (September 1), Mr. John R. 

 Swanton proceeded to British Columbia to undertake researches among 

 several northwestern tribes. His work proceeded successfully up to the end 

 of the fiscal year, when he was still in the field. 



On October 1 Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt repaired to the region occupied by the 

 survivors of the Iroquoian tribes in northwestern New York and neighbor- 

 ing portions of Canada, where he began the collection and verification of 

 traditions and cosmogonic legends, and his work continued until about the 

 middle of February, when he returned to the office with valuable collec- 

 tions and records. 



On April 15 Dr. Frank Russell was appointed as ethnologist and was 

 assigned to duty in Arizona; he immediately proceeded to the field and 

 began an extended reconnoissance of the southern and central portions of 

 the Territory. Outfitting with a team at Tucson, he passed around the 

 northern end of Santa Catalina Mountains and up San Pedro River (visit- 

 ing the caves and pictographs of the Santa Catalina range and the cliff 

 houses of the Galiuro range on the way) to Nugents Pass, where he entered 

 Aravaipa Valley. Here he found an interesting group of cliff houses. 

 Thence he proceeded, by way of Eagle Pass, to Gila Valley, where inter- 

 esting archeologic observations were made. Pushing on southward he 

 traversed the eastern slopes of Chiricahua Mountains and the western 

 slopes of Swisshelm Mountains, and examined the easterly canyons of 

 Huaehuea Mountains. Next he traversed portions of the Babacomori, 

 Sonoyta, and San Rafael valleys about the Mexican boundary; thence he 

 returned by new routes to Santa Catalina Mountains and Tucson, arriving 

 about the end of May. In the course of the trip he discovered various 

 ruins hitherto unknown, some of new types. Several of the ruins were 

 surveyed, and limited collections were made. On June 11 he proceeded 



