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  BUREAU 
  OF 
  AMERICAN 
  ETHNOLOGY 
  

  

  many 
  difficulties, 
  and 
  her 
  progress 
  at 
  first 
  was 
  slow; 
  but 
  

   later, 
  owing 
  largely 
  to 
  the 
  very 
  courteous 
  cooperation 
  of 
  the 
  

   Commissioner 
  of 
  Indian 
  Affairs, 
  her 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  history, 
  

   language, 
  and 
  customs 
  of 
  the 
  tribe 
  was 
  facilitated, 
  and 
  was 
  

   progressing 
  favorably 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  year. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  early 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  Mr. 
  James 
  Mooney 
  was 
  

   chiefly 
  occupied, 
  in 
  collaboration 
  with 
  other 
  members 
  of 
  

   the 
  Bureau, 
  with 
  the 
  Handbook 
  of 
  the 
  Indians, 
  which 
  work 
  

   was 
  continued 
  at 
  intervals 
  after 
  he 
  took 
  the 
  field. 
  On 
  

   September 
  19, 
  1905, 
  he 
  left 
  Washington 
  for 
  western 
  Okla- 
  

   homa 
  to 
  continue 
  researches 
  among 
  the 
  Kiowa, 
  Southern 
  

   Cheyenne, 
  and 
  allied 
  tribes, 
  partly 
  in 
  fulfillment 
  of 
  the 
  joint 
  

   arrangement 
  between 
  the 
  Bureau 
  and 
  the 
  Field 
  Museum 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  History. 
  His 
  stay 
  while 
  with 
  the 
  Kiowa 
  was 
  chiefly 
  

   at 
  the- 
  agency 
  at 
  Anadarko, 
  Oklahoma. 
  Among 
  the 
  Chey- 
  

   enne 
  he 
  made 
  headquarters 
  at 
  Cantonment, 
  Oklahoma, 
  the 
  

   central 
  settlement 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  conservative 
  element 
  of 
  the 
  

   tribe. 
  Mr. 
  Mooney 
  returned 
  to 
  Washington 
  about 
  the 
  end 
  

   of 
  April, 
  and 
  resumed 
  work 
  on 
  his 
  report, 
  giving 
  much 
  

   attention 
  also 
  to 
  the 
  Handbook 
  of 
  the 
  Indians. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  J. 
  Walter 
  Fewkes 
  completed 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  his 
  report 
  

   on 
  the 
  aborigines 
  of 
  Porto 
  Rico 
  and 
  neighboring 
  islands. 
  He 
  

   prepared 
  also 
  an 
  account 
  of 
  his 
  field 
  work 
  in 
  eastern 
  Mexico, 
  

   conducted 
  under 
  the 
  joint 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Insti- 
  

   tution 
  and 
  this 
  Bureau 
  during 
  the 
  winter 
  of 
  1905-6. 
  These 
  

   papers 
  were 
  assigned 
  to 
  the 
  Twenty-fifth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  and 
  

   were 
  in 
  type 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  year. 
  Doctor 
  Fewkes 
  also 
  

   made 
  considerable 
  progress 
  in 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  a 
  bulletin 
  

   on 
  the 
  antiquities 
  of 
  the 
  Little 
  Colorado 
  valley, 
  Arizona. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  year 
  Dr. 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton 
  completed 
  and 
  pre- 
  

   pared 
  for 
  the 
  press 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  Tlingit 
  material, 
  ethnological 
  

   and 
  mythological, 
  collected 
  by 
  him 
  during 
  previous 
  years; 
  

   all 
  of 
  the 
  ethnological 
  and 
  a 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  mythological 
  ma- 
  

   terial 
  has 
  been 
  accepted 
  for 
  introduction 
  into 
  the 
  Twenty- 
  

   sixth 
  Annual 
  Report. 
  Doctor 
  Swanton 
  interested 
  himself 
  

   part 
  icularly 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  linguistic 
  stocks 
  of 
  Louisi- 
  

   ana 
  and 
  southern 
  Texas, 
  many 
  of 
  which 
  are 
  either 
  on 
  the 
  

   verge 
  of 
  extinction 
  or 
  are 
  already 
  extinct; 
  and 
  a 
  grammar 
  

  

  