LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Bureau or AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 
Washington, D. C., August 4, 1919. 
Str: I have the honor to submit herewith the Fortieth 
Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 
the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919. 
With appreciation of your aid in the work under my 
charge, I am 
Very respectfully, yours, 
J. WALTER FEWKEs, 
Chief. 
Dr. CHartes D. WaALcorTT, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
