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PROPERTY 



The property of the Bureau is comprised in seven classes, 

 as follows: (1) Office furniture and appliances; (2) field out- 

 fits; (3) linguistic and ethnologic manuscripts and other docu- 

 ments; (4) photographs, drawings, paintings, and engravings; 

 (5) a working library; (6) collections held temporarily by col- 

 laborators for use in research work; and (7) an undistributed 

 residuum of the Bureau publications. 



W. H. Holmes, Chief. 



NOTE ON THE ACCOMPANYING PAPER . 



The accompanying paper on the Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians, by John 

 Peabody Han-ington, forming the body of this report, comprises some of the results 

 of tlie research undertaken jointly in New Mexico by the Bureaii of American Etli- 

 nology and the School of American Archseology of the Archaeological Institute of 

 America in 1910 and 1911, other results being the papers on the Physiography of the 

 Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, in Relation to Pueblo Culture, the Ethnobotany 

 of the Tewa Indians, and the Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians, either published or 

 in press as bulletins of the Bureau. Still further results of the joint investigation of 

 the Tewa Indians and their environment are in preparation for publication at the pres- 

 ent writing. 



Mr. Harrington has devoted much time during the last few years to study of the 

 Tewa Indians of New Mexico, especially those of the pueblos of Santa Clara and San 

 lldefonso, and his knowledge of the structure of their language has served him well 

 in the preparation of the present memoir. The task has been perplexing, as the 

 Tewa people are notably conservative in all matters pertaining to their religious and 

 social organization, making it extremely difficult to obtain information bearing on 

 this phase of their life and requiring the utmost discretion in dealing with questions 

 relating thereto. Nevertheless Mr. Harrington has succeeded admirably in his quest, 

 as is shown by the results of his ethnogeographic studies. The scope of the paper is 

 set forth briefly in the author's introduction; con.sequently more need not be said here, 

 except to emphasize the importance of the contribution in the light it sheds on the 

 concepts of the Tewa people with respect to the cosmos, their symbolism of natural 

 phenomena, their periods of time, and their mode of thought with reference to the 

 application of geographic nomenclature within the restricted limits of the universe 

 as it is known to them. 



F. W. Hodge, 

 Ethnologist-in-Charge. 



December, 1913 



