ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXV 



Eastern arcJicologi/ — Professor AV. H. Holmes, together A\itli 

 liis assistants and collaborators, continued work in eastern arclie- 

 oloffv. 3Ir William Dinwiddie made an extended eollectina: 

 trip over the country about the head of Chesajieake l^aA', pro- 

 curing- consideraljle new material and obtaining Aaluable infor- 

 mation concerning- the distributiim of aboriginal art products 

 with respect to waterways and other geographic features. Mr 

 Gerard Fowke continued tlie collection of material from the 

 interior shell mounds of Tennessee and forwarded consideralde 

 quantities of interesting- material, which is now bein."- cleaned 

 and labeled by Mr Henry Walther. Professor Plolmes himself 

 spent a part of the month in special studies concerning the 

 development of the shaping arts. His ideas -^vere formulated 

 in a preliminarv paper, and it is expected that the matter will 

 be expanded and suital)ly illustrated, and that it will then be 

 incorpoi'ated in a final report on the aboriginal stone art of the 

 territorA' no\v forming eastern United States. 



Western archeolof/i/ — Mr Cosmos Mindeleff remains in the 

 field eng-aged in surveys of the Pueblo country of northern 

 Arizona, and his reports indicate satisfactory progress in the 

 surveys as well as in the collection of material. 



Work ill siiiiouijnui — In the absence of Mr James Mooney 

 on field duty, and in the absence of Mr F. W. Hodge on leave, 

 little progress was niade in this work during the month. 



Work in iin/tkolor/ij — Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson has been 

 occupied in revising proofs of her memoir on "The Sia," wliich 

 forms the leading paper accompanying- the Eleventh Annual 

 Eeport of the Bureau. The revision of galley proofs Avas com- 

 pleted, and most of the page proofs, together with the proofs 

 of illustrations, have now been revised. 



Work In liiif/uisties — Reverend J. Owen Dorsey continued 

 the correction of tlie proofs of Riggs' "Dakota Grammar, Texts 

 and Ethnog'ra})hv," forming volume ix of the Contributions to 

 North American Ethnology. The page proofs of the body of 

 this Avork have now all been revised, and ])roofs of the list 

 of illustrations, index, etc, are in hand. In view of the time 

 wdiich has elapsed since the commencement and even since 

 the completion of the original com})ilation, it has seemed wise 



