ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XCIII 



CHARACTEKIZATION OF AOCOMPA^S^YING PAPERS 

 DISTRIBUTION OF SUIJJKCTS 



Of tlie five papers accompanying- this report, two relate to 

 archeology, and thns represent one of the bi'anches of the 

 science of teclniology ; these are Professor Holmes' monograph 

 on the stone implements of the Potomac-Chesapeake province, 

 and Mr Mindeleff's account of the restoration of Casa Grande 

 ruin. Two of the papers are more strictly ethnologic in the 

 limited sense of the term, and treat of one of the great linguis- 

 tic stocks or families of North America, the Siouan Indians; 

 one of these is general, while tlie other is devoted primarily to 

 the sociology of this group of Indians, and tluis to the third of 

 the sciences of humanity. The remaining paper, on Tusayan 

 Katcinas, is a description and discussion of forms and cere- 

 monies connected with aboriginal belief, and hence represents 

 the science of sophiolog^^ Thus in object-matter and in mode 

 of treatment the memoirs touch a considerable part of tiie field 

 covered by the science of man. 



The geographic range of the subjects is considerable. The 

 first paper relates to the middle Atlantic .slope, and especially 

 to the territory about the national capital, where geographic 

 conditions profoundly aftected the aborigines as they have less 

 profoundly, but in a parallel way, affected the civilized invad- 

 ers; the second and third papers deal with the interior area 

 extending from the l)orders of the Atlantic to tlie foothills of 

 the Rocky mountains and from the sliores of the Gulf north- 

 ward beyond the international boundary; the scene of the 

 fourth paper is laid in the Pueblo country of southwestern 

 United States, while that of the fifth is in southern Arizona, 

 near the Mexican frontier. 



The Indian tribes treated in the papers traverse the entire 

 range in aboriginal culture from that of the hunting and war- 

 ring Siouan Indians — the typical savages of North America — 

 to that of the peaceful pueblo builders, whose sedentary 

 habits can only be regarded as pointing the war which leads 



