ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XIII 



there being conducted by Dr Charles Peabody and Mr W. K. 

 Moorehead in the well-known cave near that village. Mr 

 J. D. McGuire had l)egun the exploration of this cave for the 

 Carnegie Institution in 1903 and had obtained valuable evi- 

 dence of its former occupancy by Indians. The present 

 work, which consisted of extensive excavations within the 

 outer chamber of the cavern, yielded much additional mate- 

 rial of the same general character. 



During the first few weeks of the j'ear Mr James Mooney, 

 ethnologist, was in St Louis supervising the final installation 

 of the Kiowa heraldry exhil^it in the Smithsonian section of 

 the Clovernment building, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 

 This exhibit comprised about 120 articles, filling 50 linear feet 

 of wall case, together with one floor case, and consisted of 90 

 small shield models, 4 original shields, 5 tipi models, 6 paint- 

 ings on buckskin, with several ceremonial lances and smaller 

 oljjects. On the completion of this work, after a brief leave 

 of absence, Mr Mooney returned to Mount Scott, in the Kiowa 

 country, Oklahoma, where he continued his researches, 

 including the preparation of models and the collection of 

 ethnological material. A number of Cheyenne tipi models 

 were also made for the Field Columbian Museum, of Chicago, 

 with funds provided by that institution, as authorized by 

 joint arrangement with the Bureau. At the end of October 

 Mr Mooney returned to Washington and was engaged in 

 writing a preliminary paper on Kiowa heraldry until about 

 the end of the calendar year, when he was called on to coop- 

 erate in the preparation of the Handbook of American Indians, 

 for which work the following articles were furnished: Ara- 

 wakan colony, Calusa tribe, Cheyenne tribe, Kiowa tribe, 

 military societies, peyote, population, shields, signals, sign 

 language, skin-dressing, and Timucua tribe. Besides these 

 about 100 minor articles were prepared, treating of tribes, 

 biographies of noted Indians, and other subjects. In connec- 

 tion with this work the available information relating to the 

 ancient tribes of Florida and the Gulf states generally was 

 found to be so deficient and confused that Mr Mooney under- 

 took an investigation of the subject from original sources. 



