LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Bureau or AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, 
Washington, D. C., August 4, 1917. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the Thirty- 
eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Eth- 
nology, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917. 
With appreciation of your aid in the work under my 
charge, I am 
Very respectfully, yours, 
F. W. Hopes, 
Ethnologist-in-charge. 
Dr. CHarLes D. Watcort, 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 
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