28 BUREAU OF AMEBICAN ETHNOLOGY 



So successfully has Doctor Roth gatliered from the available 

 sources his information regarding these aborigines of northern vSouth 

 America and the adjacent isles that students of the American Indians 

 wiR await with great interest his proposed work on the general 

 ethnology of the tribes of that region. 



F. W. Hodge, 



Eihnologist-in- Ch arge. 

 November, 1914. 



