LETTEK OF TRANSMITTxiL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Washingta7i, D. 6'., Mwy 20,1919. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit the accompanying manuscript, 

 entitled " Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mis- 

 sissippi," bj^ David I. Bushnell, jr., and to recommend its publica- 

 tion, subject to your approval, as a bulletin of this Bureau. 

 Very respectfully, 



J. Walter Fewkes, 



Chief. 

 Dk. Charles D. Walcoit, 



Secretary of the Srriithsoiuan I natltation. 



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