44 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 
Early in the year the bureau was urged by the officers of the Mississippi 
Valley Historical Association to contribute data relating to the history of the 
Indian tribes of the region for the meeting of the association convened in 
St. Louis June 15, 1909. ‘The chief contributed a paper entitled ““ Remarks on 
the aboriginal history of the Mississippi Valley;” and Mr. James Mooney and 
Dr. John R. Swanton were designated to attend the meeting and present papers 
dealing with kindred subjects. 
Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, remained in the field, in New Mexico, 
during the entire year. Having established headquarters at Espafiola, she 
devoted her time largely to investigations among the local Pueblo tribes, inter- 
rupting the work for short periods to record valuable data communicated by 
visiting members of the Zufi tribe. Her researches included detailed studies 
of the history, social organization and customs, religion and religious prac- - 
tices, and arts and industries of the Santa Clara and San Ildefonso tribes; and 
progress was made in the comparative study of these varied subjects among the 
numerous pueblos. 
Aside from the more systematic ethnological work, Mrs. Stevenson gave much 
attention to her unfinished papers on “The preparation of cotton, yucca, and 
wool for the loom by the New Mexican tribes” and on the ‘“‘ Medicinal and food 
plants used by the Zuni Indians.” 
Mr. EF. W. Hodge, ethnologist, was engaged chiefly in continuing the editorial 
work on Part 2 of the Handbook of American Indians, carrying along the proof 
reading toward the close of the alphabet and writing and inserting many ar- 
ticles on lesser subjects that it had been found essential to include. In this 
work he had the assistance especially of Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, who prepared 
articles pertaining chiefly to the Iroquois tribes; of Mr. William R. Gerard, of 
New York, who revised and rewrote numerous articles involving the etymology 
of Indian terms; and of Dr. Herbert H. Bolton, of the University of Texas, 
who continued to supply, to the end of the alphabet, articles relating to the 
tribes of Texas. The work of completing the second part of the Handbook 
of American Indians did not proceed as rapidly as was hoped at the beginning 
of the year, owing to the fact that the burden of the administrative work of 
the bureau devolved upon Mr. Hodge when the chief was called to South 
America and later to the Seattle Exposition, as previously mentioned. In the 
handbook work Mr. Hodge had the clerical assistance of Mrs. Frances Nichols. 
It is now expected that Part 2 will be ready for distribution in the near 
future. Mr. Hodge represented the bureau on the Smithsonian advisory com- 
mittee on printing and publication, and served also as a member of the sub- 
committee on bibliographical citations. In addition he prepared answers to 
many inquiries from correspondents, oftentimes requiring considerable research. 
Dr. Cyrus Thomas, ethnologist, devoted his time during the year to work 
on the catalogue of books and papers relating to the Hawaiian Islands. This 
catalogue, in the preparation of which Prof. H. M. Ballou, of Boston, Mass., 
is joint author, has grown to an extent not anticipated at the outset. During 
the last and next preceding fiscal years Professor Ballou examined, for this 
purpose, the libraries of Boston and other cities of New England, and also 
of New York. He also visited Hawaii, where he made a careful examination 
of the public and private libraries of Honolulu, obtaining thereby considerable 
early mission and official material of a bibliographical nature not found else- 
where. During the same period Doctor Thomas visited Boston and Worcester 
twice, searching the libraries chiefly along special lines to which Professor 
Ballou had not given exhaustive attention; he also devoted considerable time 
to an examination of the libraries of Washington. In addition to these 
researches considerable bibliographical material has been obtained by corre- 
