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Bulletin 81. Excavations in the Chama Valley, New Mexico (Jeancon). 
ix, 80 pp., 65 pls., 38 figs. 
List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 45 pp. 
PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS OR IN PREPARATION 
Thirty-eighth Annual Report. Accompanying paper: An Introduc- 
tory Study of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians 
(Roth). 
Thirty-ninth Annual Report. Accompanying paper: The Osage Tribe: 
The Rite of Vigil (ha Flesche). 
Fortieth Annual Report. Accompanying papers: The Mythical Origin 
of the White Buffalo Dance of the Fox Indians; The Autobiography 
of a Fox Indian Woman; Notes on Fox Mortuary Customs and 
Beliefs; Notes on the Fox Society Known as “Those Who Worship 
the Little Spotted Buffalo”; the Traditional Origin of the Fox 
Society Known as ‘‘ The Singing Around Rite” (Michelson) 
Forty-first Annual Report. Accompanying paper: Salish Basketry 
(Boas). 
Forty-second Annual Report. Accompanying paper: Social Organi- 
zation and Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy 
(Swanton). 
Bulletin 78. Handbook of the Indians of California (Kroeber). 
DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS 
The distribution of publications has been continued under 
the immediate charge of Miss Helen Munroe, assisted by 
Miss Emma B. Powers. Publications were distributed as 
follows: 
Report) volumes/and/separatesse= 4) 2 2oe 55 2s ee Ops 
Bulletins and separatess =. 4%. _4_ =) "a= S95 we 84 
Contributions to North henerenn ‘ethnology... Lae 10 
Miscellaneous publications! ly -- Si eyer eA tere 511 
13, 963 
As compared with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, 
there was a decrease of 3,731 publications distributed, due 
to the fact that no report volumes were issued during the 
year, whereas two reports were published in the preceding 
fiscal year. 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
Mr. DeLancey Gill, illustrator, with the assistance of Mr. 
Albert E. Sweeney, continued the preparation of the illus- 
trations of the bureau. A summary of the work follows: 
