74. ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
Volume 1, The Marginal Tribes, and volume 2, The Andean Civili- 
zations, were issued in June 1946. In addition to the usual edition 
of 3,500 distributed by the Bureau of American Ethnology, the De- 
partment of State ordered 600 copies for distribution through its 
embassies in Latin American countries, and the Superintendent of 
Documents ordered 1,000 for sale. Volume 3, The Tropical Forest 
Tribes, and volume 4, The Circum-Caribbean Tribes, were received 
in galley proof. With the exception of the linguistic section, volume 
5, The Comparative Anthropology of South American Indians, was 
completed and submitted to the editor of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology for the final editing. 
During the fiscal year, the Interdepartmental Committee on Scien- 
tific and Cultural Cooperation of the Department of State granted 
the Bureau of American Ethnology $15,000 toward the cost of pub- 
lishing the Handbook. 
SPECIAL RESEARCHES 
Miss Frances Densmore, a collaborator of the Bureau, prepared 
for publication a paper entitled “Music of the Alabama Texas.” 
In this tribe, Miss Densmore found that only ordinary dance songs 
remain. 
She also submitted her complete bibliography covering 50 years of 
study of American Indian music and a paper entitled “Prelude to 
the Study of Indian Music in Minnesota.” Another long paper was 
completed on the subject “Distribution of Certain Peculiarities in 
Indian Songs.” ‘This paper is illustrated with a number of distribu- 
tion maps. 
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 one Bulletin, listed below; also two 
volumes of a five-volume Bulletin, and one publication of the Institute 
of Social Anthropology. 
Sixty-second Annual Report, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1944-1945. 
9 pp. 
Bulletin 137. The Indians of the Southeastern United States, by John R. 
Swanton. 943 pp., 108 pls., 5 figs., 13 maps. 
The following publications were in press at the close of the fiscal 
year: 
Bulletin 143. Handbook of South American Indians. Julian H. Steward, 
editor. Volume 3: The Tropical Forest Tribes. Volume 4: The Circum-Carib- 
bean Tribes. 
