APPENDIX II. 



REPORT ON THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Sir : I have the honor to submit the following report on the operations of 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906 : 



Researches among the Indian tribes were conducted in accordance with the 

 plan of operations approved by the Secretary June 5, 1905 ; these include 

 investigations among the aborigines of Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Indian 

 Territory, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Florida, and, more especially, re- 

 searches in the office of the Bureau and in various museums and libraries 

 throughout the country. The scientific staff remains the same as during the 

 previous year with the single exception that Mr. F. W. Hodge was transferred 

 from the Secretary's office of the Smithsonian Institution to the Bureau, with 

 the title of ethnologist — a step which permits him to devote his entire time to 

 the completion of the Handbook of the Indians. 



Aside from his administrative duties, the chief was occupied with the com- 

 pletion and revision of material for the Handbook of the Indians and in the 

 preparation of a monographic work on the technology and art of the tribes. 

 He also continued his duties as honorary curator of the division of prehistoric 

 archeology in the National Museum. 



Mrs. M. C. Stevenson was engaged during the early months of the fiscal 

 year in reading the final proofs of her monograph on the Zufii Indians, which 

 issued from the press in December. In January she again entered the field, 

 having selected the pueblo of Taos, New Mexico, as a suitable place for the 

 continuation of her researches. In initiating her work in this pueblo Mrs. 

 Stevenson encountered many difficulties and her progress was at first slow ; 

 but later, owing largely to the very courteous cooperation of the Commissioner 

 of Indian Affairs, her study of the history, language, and customs of the tribe 

 was facilitated, and was progressing favorably at the close of the year. 



During the early part of the year Mr. James Mooney was chiefly occupied, 

 in collaboration with other members of the Bureau, with the Handbook of the 

 Indians, which work was continued at intervals after he took the field. On 

 September 19, 1905, he left Washington for western Oklahoma to continue 

 researches among the Kiowa, Southern Cheyenne, and allied tribes, partly in 

 fulfillment of the joint arrangement between the Bureau and the Field Museum 

 of Natural History. His stay while with the Kiowa was chiefly at the agency 

 at Anadarko, Oklahoma. Among the Cheyenne he made hef>dquarters at Can- 

 tonment, Oklahoma, the central settlement of the most conservative element of 

 the tribe. Mr. Mooney returned to Washington about the end of April, and 

 resumed work on his report, giving much attention also to the Handbook of the 

 Indians. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes completed during the year his report on the aborigines 

 of Porto Rico and neighboring islands. He also prepared an account of his 

 reseai'ches in eastern Mexico during the winter of 1905-6, conducted under 

 a grant from the funds of the Sinjthsonian Institution and an allotment from 



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