THIRTY-FIRST AMUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



F. W. Hodge, Ethnologist-in-Charge 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 



The operations of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1910, conducted in 

 accordance with the act of Congress approved March 4, 1909, 

 authorizing the continuation of ethnological researches 

 among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, 

 under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, were 

 carried forward in accordance with the plans of operations 

 approved by the Secretary June 1, 1909, and January 7, 

 1910. 



During the first half of the fiscal year the administration of 

 the Bureau was under the immediate charge of Mr. William 

 H. Holmes, who, on January 1, 1910, severed his official con- 

 nection with the Bureau in order to resume his place as head 

 curator of anthropology in the United States National 

 Museum and to become curator of the National Gallery of Art, 

 as well as to enable him to take advantage of the facilities 

 afforded by the change for publishing the results of his various 

 archeological researches. Mr. F. W. Hodge was designated 

 on the same date to assume the administration of the Bureau 

 under the title "ethnologist-in-charge." 



In view of the approaching change and of the necessity for 

 devoting much of his time to affairs connected with the 

 Department of Anthropology of the National Museum and the 

 National Gallery of Art and the administration of the Bureau, 



