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ing the excavation and preservation of archeological remains. The 

 systematic researches carried on by eight ethnologists of the regular 

 staff and by specialists not officially connected with the bureau 

 covered a wide range of field work and office studies, w^hich are 

 described in such detail in the appendix by the ethnologist-in-charge, 

 that I need here to review but briefly some of the most important 

 activities of the year. For the preparation of a memoir on The 

 Culture History of the Aborigines of the Lesser Antilles, Dr. Fewkes 

 visited Trinidad, Barbados, St. Vincent, and other islands of the 

 West Indies, where he made extensive excavations of shell-heaps, 

 particularly in Trinidad and St. Vincent, yielding very interesting 

 collections of pottery and other objects, and carried on archeologic 

 studies which proved to be especially important in throwing light 

 on the material culture of the former aborigines of the coast adjacent 

 to South America. 



Studies were continued in the investigation of Indian population, 

 a research covering the whole period from the first occupancy of the 

 country by white people to the present time, and including the entire 

 territory from the Eio Grande to the Arctic Ocean. A monograph 

 in preparation on this subject includes chapters on notable epidemics, 

 vital statistics, and race admixture. 



Further interesting studies were made in New Mexico in prepara- 

 tion of a memoir on the philosoph}^, anthropic worship and ritual, 

 zoic worship, social customs, material culture, and history of that 

 interesting and conservative Pueblo people known as the Tewa 

 Indians. 



A large amount of additional material was also obtained concern- 

 ing the languages, myths, and legends of the Fox Indians and other 

 -Algonquian tribes, and on the ceremonies and rituals of the Osage 

 and Pawnee Indians. 



Progress has been made in the preparation of the Handbook of 

 American Indian Languages and the Handbook of American Arche- 

 ology. There is also in preparation a Handbook of Aboriginal Re- 

 mains East of the Mississippi. 



Some of the results of investigations conducted by the bureau in 

 cooperation with the School of American Archeology are described 

 in three memoirs, now published or ready for publication, on The 

 Physiography of the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, in Relation 

 to Pueblo Culture, The Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, and 

 the Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians, and there is also in process 

 of completion in this connection a manuscript entitled " An Intro- 

 duction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs." 



The Handbook of American Indians, completed by the bureau 

 a few years ago, has increased the popular interest in our aborigines 

 to such an extent that the bureau is considering the feasibility of 

 issuing a series of treatises devoted to the Indians of the respective 



