ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LXXIII 



Dr W. J. Hoffinau .spent Jvilx and August and a portion of 

 September among the (3ttawa Indians near Petoskey, Michi- 

 gan, the Ojibwa Indians at La Pointe reservation, Wisconsin, 

 and the Menomini I ndians at Keshena in the same state, and 

 among the several tribes information jiertaining to customs 

 and behefs was obtained. 



Mr J. Owen Dorsey spent the month of January, 1894, on 

 the Kwapa reservation in Indian Territory, investigating the 

 social org-anization of the tribe and recording their mvths and 

 traditions. 



During the earher part of the year the Director took advan- 

 tage of opportunities growing out of work in connection with 

 the Geological Survev on the Pacific Coast to visit several 

 Indian tribes and to continue his researches relating to their 

 habits, myths, and languages. 



ARCHEOLOGY 



Professor W. H. Holmes was occujiied throughout the year 

 in archeologic researches, chiefly in eastern United States 

 The first half of July was spent in organizing the work of the 

 year, and later he proceeded to different points in Delaware 

 valley for the purpose of continuing studies of ancient quar- 

 ries and quarry shops. A new quarry shop was discovered on 

 Delaware river, 15 miles above Trenton, yielding rejects cor- 

 responding precisely with the objects so abundantly found in 

 the gravels on which the city of Trenton is built, and which 

 were formerly classed as paleoliths. Subsequently he visited 

 a number of interesting localities in Ohio, giving especial 

 attention tii the gravels at Newcomerstown, in or apparently 

 in which an artificially shaped stone has been found, this being 

 the only case now strongly held to indicate the existence of 

 man during the Glacial period in this country. 



In October he visited an i.sland in Potomac river, near Point 

 of Rocks, flooded by a recent fi'eshet in such manner as to 

 lay bare an ancient village and aboriginal workshop. This 

 workshop proved of considerable interest in that here uramis- 

 takable indication was found for the first time that blocks of 

 stone were used as anvils in the jjroduction of certain classes 

 of stone implements and weapons. 



