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waH so jilanned as to touch the less known puelilos of the plateau country and val- 

 leys of New Mexico and Arizona and to obtain data relating to social organization, 

 migrations, ami customs, as well as typical photograjihs of individuals, habitations, 

 etc. All of the existing pueblos of New Mexico were visited and many of the ruins. 

 The trip yielded a large body of data for incorporation in the re])orts and especially 

 in the Cyclopedia of Native Tribes. 



About the middle of Septeml;)er Dr. J. Walter Fewkes proceeded to New Mexico 

 for the purpose of comj)leting his investigation of the mythology and ceremonies of 

 the Ilopi Indians, his trip being so timed as to permit observation of the autumn 

 and winter ceremonies not previously observed by ethnologic students. He remained 

 in the pueblo throughout the Avinter, and his studies proved eminently fruitful. 

 Toward the end of March he repaired to Arizona for the purpose of locating aborigi- 

 nal ruins near Ricj Colorado Chiquito, concerning which vague rumors were afloat; 

 and this work, also, was quite successful, as noted in another jiaragraph. 



During the early autumn Dr. Albert S. Gatschet visited several groups of survivors 

 of Algonquian tribes on Cape Breton Island for the purpose of extending the studies 

 of the previous year in New Brunswick; he succeeded in o])taining considerable 

 linguistic material, in addition to other data pertaining to the northeasternmost rep- 

 resentatives of that great Algonquian-speaking people neighboring the Eskimo on 

 their north and extending thence southward more than halfway across the present 

 territory of the United States. 



Early in the winter Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt revisited the remnants of several Iroquoian 

 tribes in New York and Ontario and continued the collection and comjiarison of the 

 tribal traditions. Finding the conditions favorable for recording some of the more 

 noteworthy traditions, he spent several weeks in an Indian village near Hamilton, 

 Ontario, returning to the office in April. 



Toward the end of the calendar year Mr. J. B. Hatcher, wdio had been operating 

 in Patagonia and Terra del Fuego as a special agent of the Bureau, returned to the 

 country with a considerable collection for the Museum, as well as a large number of 

 jjhotographs illustrating the physical characteristics, costumery, habitations, and 

 occupations of the Tehuelche and Yahgan tribes. He also brought in an extended 

 vocabulary collected among the natives of the former tribe and useful notes relating 

 to the social organization and other characteristics of the two tribes. 



Toward the end of the fiscal year Miss Alice C. Fletcher was commissioned as a 

 special agent to visit Indian Territory and Oklahoma for the purjjose of obtaining cer- 

 tain esoteric rituals of the Pawnee tribe. Her work was notably successful, as is indi- 

 cated in other paragraphs. 



Dr. Willis E. Everett remained in Alaska throughout the fiscal year, pursuing his 

 vocation as a mining engineer, but incidentally collecting, for the use of the Bureau, 

 linguistic and other data pertaining to the native tribes. 



About the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Robert Stein, formerly of the United States 

 Geological Survey, accomiaanied a Peary expedition northward as far as Elsmereland, 

 where he planned to spend the winter in geographic and related researches. He 

 carried instructions from the Bureau for such archfeologic and ethnologic observations 

 as he might be able to make, together with photographic apparatus and materials 

 needed in the work. Elsmereland is not known to be now inhabited, nor to have 

 been inhabited in the past, by the aborigines, Init the situation of the island is such 

 as to indicate that it was probably occui)ied at least temporarily by Eskimauan tribes 

 in some of the migrations attested by their wide distriliution; hence it is thought 

 probable that archa-ologic work on the island may throw light on the early history of 

 this widely dispersed orarian people. A brief report of progress was received after 

 the close of the fiscal year. 



During the autumn Mr. Robert T. Hill, of the United States Geological Survey, 

 visited Porto Rico in the interests of that Bureau and of the Department of Agricul- 



