LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 BuEEAU OF American Ethnology, 

 Washington, D.G., March 30, 1962. 

 Sir: I have the honor to submit the accompanying manuscript 

 entitled "Shonto : A Study of the Role of the Trader in a Modern 

 Navaho Community," by William Y. Adams, and to recommend that 

 it be published as a bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 

 Very respectfully yours, 



Fr^vnk H. H. Roberts, Jr., 



Director. 



Dr. Leonard Carmichael, 



Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 



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