ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 37 
mental. Thus, in a portion of his melody, the Indian ap- 
pears to find satisfaction in intervals which are under natural 
laws. Apart from these tones and intervals it appears, from 
the evidence in hand, that his choice of tonal material is 
controlled by a sense of pleasure rather than by ‘‘keys”’ or 
“modes.” 
Miss Densmore continued work on her manuscript en- 
titled ‘‘ Chippewa Arts and Customs.’”’ Tabulations of the 
botanical portions of this book were made as follows: Lists 
of botanical names, with bibliography, showing the uses of 
these plants by other tribes; lists of plants used as food, 
dyes, charms, and for general utility. Miss Densmore 
made more than 100 blue prints of birch-bark transparen- 
cies, showing a wide variety of interesting patterns. These 
transparencies are made by folding thin birch bark and in- 
denting it with the teeth, the bark, when unfolded and held 
toward the light, revealing the pattern. This form of Chip- 
pewa art is almost extinct at the present time. 
In September and October Mr. W. E. Myer, of Nash- 
ville, Tenn., excavated, under the auspices of the bureau, 
Indian village sites on the Gordon farm near Brentwood, 
Davidson County, Tenn., and also the Fewkes Group at 
Boiling Spring Academy, Williamson County, in the same 
State. The remains of an old Indian town at the Gordon 
site had walls and towers very similar to those of Pacaha, 
visited by De Soto in 1541. The walls covered an area of 
11.2 acres. 
When the former inhabitants for some unknown reason 
abandoned this site they appear to have left nearly all the 
buildings still standing. The locality was never again 
occupied or disturbed, but gradually the buildings of the 
silent and deserted town decayed and whatever vestiges 
were not destroyed by the elements were slowly buried 
under a layer of black loam which is now from 14 to 20 inches 
deep. 
In the course of time the site of the buried village gradu- 
ally became a beautiful grassy glade set here and there with 
giant forest trees. The charm of the site appealed to one 
of the first white settlers, who built his home here and pre- 
