60 ANNUAL REPOET SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



LIBRARY. 



The library of the bureau continued in immediate charge of Miss 

 Ella Leary, librarian, assisted by Mrs. Ella Slaughter. During the 

 year the accessions comprised 562 volumes (of which 129 were pur- 

 chased) and 244 pamphlets, bringing the total number of volumes in 

 the library to 18,532, and the pamphlets to 12,744. The periodicals 

 currently received by the bureau, of which there are several thousand 

 unbound parts, number G29 ; of these all but 18 are obtained in ex- 

 change for the bureau's publications. Special attention was paid 

 during the year to filling lacunae in the periodical series. 



The cataloguing kept apace with the new accessions, and some 

 progress was made in cataloguing ethnologic and related articles in 

 the earlier serials. A monthly bulletin for the use of the members of 

 the bureau staff was compiled and posted by the librarian, who also 

 made a beginning in the preparation of a list of vs^ritings on the 

 music of American Indians. 



As in the past, it was necessary to draw on the collections of the 

 Library of Congress, about 300 volumes having been borrowed dur- 

 ing the year. On the other hand, the library of the bureau is fre- 

 quently consulted by officers of the departments of the Government, 

 as well as by students not connected with the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



AVhile many volumes are still without binding, the condition of 

 the library in this respect has greatly improved during the last few 

 years; 493 volumes were bound at the Government Printing Office 

 during the year. 



COLLECTiqNS. 



The following collections were made by the bureau or by members 

 of its staff during the fiscal year and transferred to the National 

 Museum : 



54311. Six photographs (unmomited) taken by A. J. Horswill, San Jose, Min- 

 doro, P. I., among the natives of Mindoro Island. Gift to the bureau by 

 Muun & Co., New York. 



54465. Sacred pack of the Fox Indians of Iowa. Purchased for the bureau by 

 Dr. Truman Michel son. 



54691. Five pieces of cotton painted with Assyrian subjects. Received by the 

 bureau from an unknown source. 



54798. Three sacred looms and seven burden straps of the Osage Indians. Col- 

 lected by Francis La Flesche. 



.54933. Three fragments of Indian pottery found at Red Willow, Nebr., by Mrs. 

 Ada Buck Martin, by whom they were presented. 



54934. Sacred bundle of the Fox Indians. Purchased through Dr. Trumar 

 Michelson. 



54946. Two sacred bundles of the Osage Indians. Purchased by Francis -La 

 Flesche. 



