ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 5 
He furthermore typed the Fox text and English trans- 
lation of an account of the wapanowiweni, a text and 
translation of the same relating to the mythical origin of 
a major ceremony of the Thunder gens, and the Indian 
text of the Thunder dance of the Bear gens. All of these, 
eombined with some additional material, will be presented 
for publication by the bureau. Doctor Michelson has pre- 
pared a brief paper on the St. Lawrence Island Eskimo 
erania in the United States National Museum, which is 
to be printed in the American Journal of Physical 
Anthropology. This proves statistically that the crania 
are very uniform, and that, although the cranial index is 
higher than that of the eastern Eskimo, this could not be 
considered as showing admixture with a broad-headed 
type. He spent some time studying the alleged proof of 
the Australian and Melanesian affinities of certain Ameri- 
can stocks, and found that it lacks a sound foundation. 
On his way west Doctor Michelson stopped in Chicago, 
where he took the important measurements of all the 
Blackfoot (Siksika) erania in the Field Museum of Nat- 
ural History. The average height of the male skulls is 
in round numbers 130 millimeters. These measurements, 
when combined with those of material in the United States 
National Museum, should be sufficient to settle a number 
of disputed points. 
Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, during July and 
August, assisted the chief in the work at Elden Pueblo, 
described previously in this report. The rest of the year 
was devoted to the preparation for publication of field 
data obtained the previous year in the Chumash region 
of southern California. The Chumash are fast being 
acculturated to the languages and mode of life of the 
Mexican and American people with whom they are in 
daily contact and it is important that what information 
is still available be made a matter of record without fur- 
ther delay. 
Through the cooperation of Mr. Earl V. Shannon, of 
the division of mineralogy of the National Museum, the 
