ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXVII 
ent it suffices to observe that the conclusions have been veri- 
fied and extended through the researches of the last year. 
As heretofore, the special researches are commonly initiated 
in the field and completed in the office, giving rise to (1) field 
research (including exploration), and (11) office research, which 
together constitute the original scientific work of the Bureau; 
while the demands of the public service and the needs of the 
collaborators give rise to (III) work in descriptive ethnology, 
(IV) bibliographic work, (V) work in collecting, (VI) publica- 
tion, and (VII) concomitant administrative and miscellaneous 
work. 
FIELD RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION 
At the beginning of the fiscal year the Director was engaged 
in a reconnoissance of shell mounds and other antiquities on 
the coast of Maine; here he was joined by Mr Frank Hamil- 
ton Cushing, and a number of shell mounds were surveyed 
and excavated with suecess. Later in the season the Passama- 
quoddy Indians still living in the vicinity were studied with 
some care, and their industries, especially in house building, 
were investigated; subsequently some of the older men of the 
tribe were employed to collect material for and to erect an 
aboriginal wigwam, which was afterward transferred to the 
Zoological Park at Washington. 
During July and August Dr J. Walter Fewkes was occu- 
pied in making surveys and excavations of ruins, chiefly in 
Arizona, with the primary object of collecting prehistoric mate- 
rial for the enrichment of the National Museum, but with the 
secondary purpose of investigating those activities of the abo- 
rigines recorded in the produets of their handiwork still extant. 
His operations were notably successful. 
Early in July Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson proceeded to 
Zuni pueblo for the purpose of investigating certain ceremo- 
nies not adequately studied hitherto, to the end that they might 
be incorporated in her monograph on the Zuni Indians. She 
remained throughout half of sthe fiscal year, and was able to 
complete her researches in a satisfactory manner. Incident- 
