FOREWORD 



This volume was prepared by the late Dr. Bonnerjea after he had 

 completed an index of the Annual Reports of the Bureau of Amer- 

 ican Ethnology, published as the paper accompanying the Forty- 

 eighth Annual Report, Washington, 1933. The present work contahis 

 an index of Bulletins 1 through 100 and of other publications of the 

 Bureau. Unfortunately its printing has long been delayed because of 

 insufficient funds. Even at this late date, however, it will prove useful 

 to students and the general reader. 



The style followed by the author is essentially the same, with 

 slight additions and modifications, as that used for the index to the 

 Annual Reports of the Bureau. The present volume is divided into 

 five parts. The first is devoted to a subject index for the Bulletins; 

 the second is an index to the authors and titles of the Bulletins ; the 

 third provides an alphabetical index for all the plates and text 

 figures in the Bulletins; the fourth is an index to the ethnological 

 material to be found in the Contributions to North American Eth- 

 nology, the Introductions, and the Miscellaneous Publications of the 

 Bureau ; and the fifth is an index to the authors and titles of the last 

 tliree series. 



In commenting on the fourth part of this volume, Dr. Bonnerjea 

 stated that it was not originally intended to include the Contributions 

 to North American Ethnology, Introductions, and Miscellaneous Pub- 

 lications in the index, but the late Drs. John R. Swanton and Truman 

 Michelson, with whom plans for the work were discussed, suggested 

 that the usefulness of the index would be further enlianced by 

 including references to the ethnological material contained in the 

 three series. Since their contents are all more or less of an ethno- 

 logical nature, making an index of the etlmological material would 

 provide a virtually complete index of the papers themselves. After 

 careful consideration of the problem, Dr. Bonnerjea decided that 

 it was necessary to restrict himself mainly to what he considered 

 the most important ethnological material, but he expressed the hope 

 that he had not overlooked items of linguistic, somatological, socio- 

 logical, and religious interest. Another reason which he gave for tlie 

 less detailed coverage of this material was that most of the volumes of 

 these series had long been out of print and were not readily accessible. 



