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during the rear submitted three papers, comprising 252 

 pages of manuscript, original phonographic records and 

 musical transerijition of 107 songs, and 23 original photo- 

 graphic illustrations. Three subjects have been ex- 

 haustively studied and a fourth is represented in such 

 manner that the results may be regarded as ready for pub- 

 lication. The three principal subjects are the sacred 

 stones, dreams about animals, and the buffalo hunt. The 

 fourth subject referred to relates to the warpath and is 

 represented by about 20 songs, but it awaits further study 

 of the military societies. A special group of songs con- 

 sists of those which have been composed and sung by the 

 Sioux in honor of Miss Densmore. 



A study of the music of the Mandau and Hidatsa at Port 

 Berthold, N. Dak., was made by Miss Densmore in the smn- 

 mer of 1912, in cooperation with the Historical Society of 

 the State of North Dakota. The results of this investiga- 

 tion consist of a manuscript of about 50 pages, with tran- 

 scriptions of 40 songs. 



Miss Densmore also read the proofs of Bulletin 53 

 (Chippewa Music — II), which is now in press. 



Mr. W. H. Holmes, head curator of the department of 

 anthropology of the United States National Museimi, con- 

 tinued the preparation of the Handbook of American 

 Archaeology for publication by the bureau, as far as the 

 limited time available for the purpose permitted. Aside 

 from the preparation of the text and illustrations for 

 parts 1 and 2 of this handbook, Mr. Holmes made field ob- 

 servations among the ancient mica mines in western North 

 Carolina and among mounds and village sites in South 

 Carolina and Georgia. He also visited a number of 

 museums for the purpose of examining the collections of 

 archffiological material, among them being the museums of 

 Boston, Andover, NeAv York City, Philadelphia, Colmn- 

 bus, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Davenport, and St. 

 Louis. 



Mr. D. I. Bushnell, jr., made good progress in the com- 

 pilation of the Handbook of Aboriginal Remains East of 



