Appendix 2. 



REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Sir: Pursuant to your request dated July 3, I have the honor to 

 submit the following report of the operations of the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, 

 conducted in accordance with the act of Congress approved July 1, 

 1916, making provisions for the sundry civil expenses of the Govern- 

 ment, and with a plan of operations submitted by the ethnologist-in- 

 charge and approved by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. The act referred to contains the following item : 



American ethnology : For continuing ethnological researches among the Ameri- 

 can Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preserva- 

 tion of archseologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodi- 

 cals, $42,000. 



In addition to conducting the administrative affairs of the bureau, 

 Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist-in-charge, assisted by Miss Florence 

 M. Poast, continued the preparation of the annotated bibliography 

 of the Pueblo Indians as opportunity offered, adding about 1,000 

 cards to the 3,800 previously prepared. 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES. 



In April Mr. Hodge proceeded to New Mexico for the purpose of 

 making final arrangements with the Zuni Indians for the excava- 

 tion of the ruins of the large pueblo of Hawikuh, situated on their 

 reservation in the western-central part of the State. This having 

 been accomplished, Mr. Hodge returned to Washington and in the 

 latter part of May again proceeded to Zuni and established camp at 

 Hawikuh, where excavations were immediately commenced under the 

 joint auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Museum 

 of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, of New York City, the 

 latter institution bearing most of the expense of the expedition, and 

 assigning Mr. Alanson Skinner and Mr. E. F. Coffin to aid in the 

 work. Authority for conducting the excavations was courteously 

 granted by the Secretary of the Interior. 



The excavation of Hawikuh has as its chief object the study of 

 a Zuni pueblo known to have been inhabited from prehistoric times 

 well into the historic period, for the purpose of determining, so far 



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