﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  53 
  

  

  In 
  December 
  1942 
  Dr. 
  Philip 
  Drucker, 
  assistant 
  ethnologist, 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  a 
  commission 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Naval 
  Reserve 
  and 
  was 
  

   granted 
  a 
  military 
  furlough. 
  Dr. 
  Drucker 
  had 
  spent 
  the 
  preceding 
  

   portion 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  in 
  preparing 
  final 
  reports 
  on 
  archeological 
  

   work 
  previously 
  conducted 
  in 
  Mexico 
  by 
  the 
  National 
  Geographic 
  

   Society-Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  archeological 
  expeditions. 
  These 
  

   reports, 
  in 
  press 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year, 
  will 
  appear 
  as 
  Bulletins 
  

   of 
  the 
  Bureau. 
  

  

  SPECIAL 
  RESEARCHES 
  

  

  Miss 
  Frances 
  Densmore, 
  a 
  collaborator 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau, 
  continued 
  

   work 
  on 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  Indian 
  music 
  by 
  completing 
  two 
  large 
  manu- 
  

   scripts 
  — 
  Seminole 
  Music, 
  and 
  Music 
  of 
  Acoma, 
  Isleta, 
  Cochiti, 
  and 
  

   Zuiii 
  Pueblos. 
  She 
  also 
  devoted 
  considerable 
  time 
  to 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  

   traces 
  of 
  foreign 
  influences 
  in 
  the 
  music 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Indians. 
  

   During 
  a 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  she 
  was 
  engaged 
  in 
  writing 
  a 
  handbook 
  

   of 
  the 
  Smithsonian-Densmore 
  collection 
  of 
  sound 
  recordings 
  of 
  Ameri- 
  

   can 
  Indian 
  music 
  for 
  the 
  National 
  Archives. 
  

  

  Miss 
  Densmore 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Bureau 
  a 
  record 
  of 
  her 
  field 
  work 
  

   on 
  Indian 
  music 
  and 
  customs 
  for 
  the 
  Bureau 
  from 
  1907 
  to 
  1941, 
  and 
  

   completed 
  the 
  bibliography 
  of 
  her 
  writings 
  on 
  that 
  subject. 
  She 
  also 
  

   presented 
  the 
  original 
  phonograph 
  record 
  of 
  a 
  speech 
  in 
  the 
  Ute 
  

   language 
  by 
  the 
  famous 
  Ute 
  chief 
  Eed 
  Cap, 
  made 
  in 
  1916, 
  and 
  a 
  

   similar 
  record 
  of 
  a 
  speech 
  in 
  the 
  Yuma 
  language 
  by 
  Kacora, 
  made 
  in 
  

   1922, 
  with 
  accompanying 
  information. 
  

  

  In 
  1943 
  Miss 
  Densmore 
  completes 
  50 
  years' 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  music, 
  

   customs, 
  and 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Indians. 
  

  

  EDITORIAL 
  WORK 
  AND 
  PUBLICATIONS 
  

  

  The 
  editorial 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  continued 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  under 
  

   the 
  immediate 
  direction 
  of 
  the 
  editor, 
  M. 
  Helen 
  Palmer. 
  There 
  were 
  

   issued 
  one 
  Annual 
  Report 
  and 
  three 
  Bulletins, 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Fifty-ninth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology, 
  1941-1942. 
  

   12 
  pp. 
  

  

  Bulletin 
  132. 
  Source 
  material 
  on 
  the 
  history 
  and 
  ethnology 
  of 
  the 
  Caddo 
  Indians, 
  

   by 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton. 
  332 
  pp., 
  19 
  pis., 
  5 
  text 
  figs. 
  

  

  Bulletin 
  134. 
  The 
  native 
  tribes 
  of 
  eastern 
  Bolivia 
  and 
  western 
  Matto 
  Grosso, 
  

   by 
  Alfred 
  MStraux. 
  182 
  pp., 
  5 
  pis., 
  1 
  text 
  fig. 
  

  

  Bulletin 
  135. 
  Origin 
  myth 
  of 
  Acoma 
  and 
  other 
  records, 
  by 
  Matthew 
  W. 
  Stirling. 
  

   123 
  pp., 
  17 
  pis., 
  8 
  text 
  figs. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  Bulletins 
  were 
  in 
  press 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  : 
  

  

  Bulletin 
  133. 
  Anthropological 
  papers, 
  numbers 
  19-26: 
  

   No. 
  19. 
  A 
  search 
  for 
  songs 
  among 
  the 
  Chitimacha 
  Indians 
  in 
  Louisiana, 
  by 
  

   Frances 
  Densmore. 
  

  

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