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Indians of California. Extensive excavations were made at several 
ruined village sites which revealed two distinct coast Indian cul- 
tures—an earlier and a later. Under the direction of one of the few 
survivors who still knows how to make the Mission Indian houses, or 
jacals, Mr. Harrington succeeded in building one of these structures 
and excellent photographs were obtained showing each step in the 
construction. A large amount of valuable information regarding 
the Mission Indians was brought together by Mr. Harrington, and 
this material will later be published by the bureau. 
Dr. Francis La Flesche was engaged during the year in classifying 
the personal names of the full-blood members of the Osage Tribe 
according to their places in the gentes of the tribe. Each name 
refers cryptically to the origin story of the gens to which it belongs. 
Nearly 2,000 names were recorded, but their translation has not been 
completed. Doctor La Flesche, in collaboration with Doctor Swan- 
ton, began a vocabulary of the Osage Tribe, some 3,000 words having 
been recorded with translations thus far. 
Miss Frances Densmore continued her studies of Indian music, 
collecting during the year extensive material among the Menominee 
of Wisconsin, and completing her manuscript on Papago music, 
which is now in shape for publication. Mr. Gerard Fowke con- 
ducted for the bureau during the period February to April, 1926, a 
survey and exploration of a group of aboriginal remains near Marks- 
ville, La. The mounds excavated and the methods of burial dis- 
closed differentiate this group of remains from any other known to 
the bureau. Mr. Fowke submitted to the chief a full report, with 
illustrations and map, on the work. 
During the last three months of the year, Mr. H. W. Krieger of the 
National Museum was detailed to the bureau for the purpose of 
studying the archeology of the Upper Columbia River Valley, and to 
undertake the restoration of the old Haida Indian village, Old 
Kasaan, a national monument in southeastern Alaska. A reconnais- 
sance trip along the upper Columbia River in Oregon and Washing- 
ton resulted in the selection of an old Indian camp site at Wahluke 
Ferry as the most promising station for excavation. Several hun- 
dred objects were unearthed, most of which had been ceremonial 
offerings accompanying the cremation form of burial. At Kasaan, 
it was found that most of the fine totem poles and all of the houses 
of the old village had either decayed beyond recall or had been 
burned in a recent fire. A few poles were scraped and the rotted 
wood removed. On the return trip, Mr. Krieger completed a map of 
archeological sites on the upper Columbia River, and undertook 
excavation at eight stations along the river. 
Mr. Henry B. Collins, jr., of the National Museum, was detailed to 
the bureau to carry on archeological work in Louisiana and Mis- 
