10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
New York, and Ontario. The field work has not been so exten- 
sive, however, as during most previous years, for the reason 
that a number of the ethnologists had to be retained in the 
office to assist in the completion of the Handbook of American 
Indians and in the proof reading of reports passing through 
the press. 
The Chief of the Bureau remained on duty in the office 
during nearly the entire year. Administrative duties occu- 
pied much of his time, but during the winter and spring 
months he was called on to assist in the preparation of the 
exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution at the Jamestown 
Exposition, and in April in installing this exhibit. The com- 
pletion of numerous articles for the Handbook of American 
Indians, the revision of various manuscripts submitted for 
publication, and the proof reading of reports and bulletins 
claimed his attention. Aside from these occupations his 
duties as honorary curator of the department of prehistoric 
archeology in the National Museum and as curator of the 
National Gallery of Art absorbed a portion of his time. The © 
Chief was called on also to assist in formulating the uniform 
rules and regulations required by the Departments of the 
Interior, Agriculture, and War in carrying out the provisions 
of the law for the preservation of antiquities, to pass on 
various applications for permits to explore among the antiq- 
uities of the public domain, and to furnish data needful 
in the selection of the archeologic sites to be set aside as 
national monuments. In addition he was able to give some 
attention to carrying forward the systematic study of 
aboriginal technology and art, on which he has been engaged 
for several years, as occasion offered. 
At the beginning of the year Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnolo- 
gist, was in the Indian village of Taos, New Mexico, continu- 
ing her studies of the arts, habits, customs, and language of 
this tribe begun during the previous year. Although the 
field was new and the traditional conservatism of the tribe 
made investigation in certain directions difficult or impossible 
much progress was made, and when the work is completed 
results of exceptional value will doubtless have been obtained. 
