4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 
Park Service and later accepted by the Secretary of the Inte- 
rior. The presentation of this interesting ruin to the Goy- 
ernment is important and it is to be hoped that it will later 
be excavated and repaired and thus present an additional 
attraction to tourists and an important aid to the archeologist 
in the interpretation of this type of southwestern ruin. 
In May the chief visited Austin, Tex., and inaugurated 
work on the antiquities of that State, the archeology of which 
has been neglected. ‘This work is now being prosecuted by 
Prof. J. E. Pearce, of the University of Texas, and bids fair 
to open up a most instructive chapter in a field of which we 
know comparatively little. Important discoveries have been 
made in the aboriginal workshops and village sites at Round 
Rock and near Austin, where fine flint implements are very 
abundant. The work will be continued into the timbered 
region of eastern ‘Texas, where we find pottery related to 
that of Louisiana and Arkansas and evidences of a radically 
different prehistoric culture from that of central Texas. 
Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, at the beginning of the 
fiscal year was at his former field of labor among the Kiowa 
and associated tribes of western Oklahoma, where several 
months were devoted to the collection and revision of 
material and observations of ceremonies among the Kiowa, 
Comanche, Kiowa Apache, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Caddo, and 
Wichita in continuation of studies of their aboriginal her- 
aldry, social and military organization, and religion. 
Since his return to Washington in November he has been 
employed chiefly in the coordination of material obtained in 
the field and in the compiling of data for reply to current 
letters of ethnologic inquiry. 
Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, devoted a considerable 
part of his time during the past year to the collection of 
material from published sources for a study of the economic 
background of the life of the American Indians north of 
Mexico. This involves an examination of the sources, loca- 
tion, and quantity of food supplies and of new materials 
used in the industrial life of the various tribes—materials of 
wood, stone, bone, shell, ete. In this way it is hoped that 
a more complete understanding of the density and distribu- 
