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Indians, but as it is the desire to revise this worlc com- 

 l^letel^y, with the aid of the entire staff of the bureau as 

 well as of other specialists, little more than a beginning 

 of the revision has been made. Mr. Hodge continued 

 to represent the Smithsonian Institution at the meetings 

 of the United States Board on Geographic Names, and 

 the Bureau of American Ethnology on the Smithsonian 

 advisory coimnittee on printing and publication. 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnologist, spent the sunmier 

 months and part of the autunm of 1912 in correcting the 

 proofs of his monograph on Casa Grande and of his report 

 on the Antiquities of the Upper Verde River and Walnut 

 Creek Valleys, Arizona, both of which appear in the 

 Twenty-eighth Ammal Report of the bureau, and in com- 

 jileting the draft of a memoir devoted to the Symbolic De- 

 signs on Hopi Pottery, which it is designed to publish with 

 numerous illustrations. The remainder of the autumn 

 was occupied by Dr. Fewkes in gathering material for an 

 eventual memoir on the Culture History of the Aborigines 

 of the Lesser Antilles, these data being derived chiefly 

 from a study of the early literature of the subject and of 

 the rich West Indian collections from the island of St. 

 Vincent in the Heye Museiun of New York City. Pre- 

 paratory to the publication of the final results, Dr. 

 Fewkes, with the generous permission of George G. Heye, 

 Esq., selected with entire freedom the necessary objects 

 for illustration, and before the close of the fiscal year 

 about 200 drawings of the archeological objects in this im- 

 portant collection had been finished. 



In October, 1912, Dr. Fewkes sailed for the West Indies 

 under the joint auspices of the bureau and the Heye Mu- 

 seum, the sjjecial object in view being the gathering of new 

 archeological data through the excavation of village sites 

 and refuse-heaps and the examination of local collections 

 in the islands. Dr. Fewkes visited Trinidad, Barbados, 

 St. Vincent, Balliceaux, Grenada, Dominica, St. Kitts, 

 Santa Cruz, and other islands, excavating shell-heaps in 

 Trinidad and Balliceaux, and making archeological studies 



