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EEPORT OF THE SECRETAEY. 



Las Vegas, Chaco Canyon, Mount Taylor, Largo, Laniy, Wingate, Jemez, Taos, 

 Tierra xVmarilla, Quemado, Aconia, Manzano, Finos Wells, Tularosa, Chloride. 

 San Marcial, Fort Stanton, Big Hatchet, Chania, El Paso, Fort Bayard, Las 

 Cruces, San Juan, Albuquerque, and Tres Hernianos. In Colorado the Mesa 

 Verde sheet alone includes 5-1 sites. On the 21 Arizona sheets (Tusayan, Fort 

 Defiance, San Francisco Mountain, Echo Cliff, St. Johns, Prescotl, Verde, 

 Florence, Holbrook, Canyon de Chelly, Solomonsville, Globe, Phoenix, Casa 

 Grande, Fort Apache, Diamond Creek, Chino, Marsh Pass, Tombstone, and 

 Tucson) 270 sites are recorded, and on the Utah sheets (Ashley, Beaver, 

 Escalante, Fish Lake, Henry Mountain. Kanab, Manti, Salt Lake, San Rafael, 

 St. George, Price River, Uinta, La Salle. Abajo, and Utah) are noted 122 sites. 

 The 1,008 archeological sites thus catalogued are scattered over an iunnense 

 territory and come under the jurisdiction of the Interior, Agricultural, and 

 War departments. 



EXPOSITION WORK. ^ 



The exhibit of the Bureau installed in the Smithsonian section of the Gov- 

 ernment building of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis during 

 1904, and described in the report for that year, was dismantled at the close of 

 the exposition and a large part of it transferred to Portland, where it has 

 been installed as a part of the Institution's exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Ex- 

 position. The remainder of the material has been^returned to Washington and 

 deposited in the National Museum. 



STUDY OF INDIAN DELEOATIONS. 



The systematic study of visiting Indian delegations has been continued with 

 success. During the year 23 delegations, representing 21 tribes, have been 

 conducted, through the agency of jNIr. Andrew John, to the Bureau and National 

 Museum laboratories. Upward of 280 portrait negatives have been made, and 

 casts and measurements of a number of individuals have l)een obtained. Few 

 Indians of the higher type, however, are willing to submit to the experience of 

 having the face encased in plaster. The tribes represented are as follow : 



COLLECTIONS. 



The ethnological collections ol)tained during the year fall considerably short 

 of those of previous years, owing to the reduced amount of field work undertaken. 

 This condition was due, as already explained, to the necessity of keeping most 



