REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 7 
songs ‘of the charms (“fetiches”) by which they believed that they 
were protected. Songs of the warfare against Black Hawk were 
obtained, and one very old war song with the words “The Queen 
(of England) wants us to fight against her enemies.” 
Mr. Gerard Fowke, special archeologist, was engaged for three 
months, February to April, in making a survey and explorations of 
a group of aboriginal remains near Marksville, La. The works con- 
sisted of 3 enclosures, 20 mounds, 8 lodge sites, and several village 
sites, extending a distance of 2 miles along the bluff overlooking 
Old River and in the bottom land bordering that watercourse. 
Eight of the mounds are of the flat-topped, domigiliary type; the 
others are conical or dome-shaped, usually classed as burial mounds. 
Six of the last were fully excavated. Two of them contained 
evidence of many interments; two were house sites indicating 
at least three periods of construction; the remaining two yielded 
nothing that would show the reason for their building. All were 
singularly barren of contents. Only traces of bones were found in the 
graves. The manner of construction of these mounds and the 
methods of burial were of a character which differentiates them from 
any others that have so far been reported to the bureau. They do 
not seem to belong with those to the east of the Mississippi, or with 
those which are so numerous to the westward. 
A full report, with map and illustrations, has been prepared. 
During the months of April, May, and June, Mr. H. W. Krieger, 
curator of ethnology of the National Museum, was detailed to engage 
in field work for the Bureau of American Ethnology. He was 
authorized by the chief of the bureau to proceed to Walla Walla, 
Wash., and vicinity for the purpose of studying the archeology of 
the upper Columbia River Valley, thence to proceed to southeastern 
Alaska to undertake the restoration of Old Kasaan, a national monu- 
ment on Prince of Wales Island. 
A careful inspection was made of the various collections of archeo- 
logical material gathered by members of the Columbia River Archeo- 
logical Society at Walla Walla, Wenatchee, Quincy, and other points 
in the State of Washington. 
Accompanied by Mr. H. T. Harding, a local archeologist, who 
had spent over 20 years in archeological investigations along the 
upper Columbia, a reconnaissance was undertaken from The Dalles, 
in Oregon, to Wenatchee, Wash., for the purpose of plotting a map of 
the known archeological sites and selecting likely stations for ex- 
cavation. The old Indian camp site at Wahluke Ferry, located at 
the extreme southern extent of the big bend of the Columbia, was 
selected as the most promising. There were no traces of previous 
disturbance by curio hunters. The ruins of the old Indian camp 
site and the cemetery near by yielded several hundred objects, most 
