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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Was/ii>i(/ton, D, C, Juhj 1, 1905. 

 Sir: I have the honor to .submit herewith the manuscript of Bulletin 

 30 of the Bureau of American Ethnology, entitled "Handbook of 

 American Indians," which has been in preparation for a number of 

 3^ears and has been completed for publication under the editorship 

 of Mr F. W. Hodge. The Handbook contains a descriptive list of 

 the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north 

 of Mexico, accompanied with the various names by which these have 

 been known, together with biographies of Indians of note, sketches of 

 their history, archeology, manners, arts, customs, and institutions, and 

 the aboriginal words incorporated into the English language. 

 Respectfully, 



W. H. Holmes, Chief. 



The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 



WasJihujtou^ I). 0. 



