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tion by Mr. Charles L. Freer. On this occasion he availed 

 himself of the opportunity of examining the interesting col- 

 lections of art and ethnology preserved in the Detroit 

 Museum of Art. 



In June the Chief was selected to represent the Institution 

 as a member of the delegation of Americans appointed by 

 the Department of State to attend the Pan American 

 Scientific Congress to be held in Santiago, Chile, beginning 

 December 25, 1908, and he began at once the preparation 

 of a paper to be read before the Congress, the su]:)ject chosen 

 being "The Peophng of America". 



At the beginning of the year Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, eth- 

 nologist, was in the office engaged in preparing reports on 

 her recent researches in the field. Her work at Taos, Santa 

 Clara, and other Rio Grande pueblos was not so well advanced 

 as to admit of final treatment, but progress was made in the 

 classification and elaboration of the data thus far collected. 

 Principal attention was given while in the office to the com- 

 pletion of papers relating to the medicinal and food plants 

 of the Zuni Indians, the pantheon of the Zuiii religious 

 system, the symbolism of Pueblo decorative art, and the 

 preparation of wool for weaving among the Pueblo and 

 Navaho tribes. 



On May 28 Mrs. Stevenson again took the field in the Rio 

 Grande VaUey with the view of continuing her investigations 

 among the Taos, Santa Clara, San Ildefonso, and other 

 Pueblo groups, and at the close of the year she was able to 

 report satisfactory progress in this work. 



Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist, was engaged during the 

 year on the Handt^ook of American Indians, the editorial 

 work of which has proved extremely arduous and difficult. 

 This work is in two parts. Part 1, A-M, was issued from the 

 press in March, 1907, and the edition became practically 

 exhausted in a few months. Indeed, the demand for the 

 work has been so great that the Bureau has found it impos- 

 sil^le to supply even a third ,of the copies requested by cor- 

 respondents. The quota under control of the superintendent 

 of documents also was soon exhausted, necessitating the 

 reprinting of an edition of 500 copies (the limit allowed by 



