XTV BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



tlie aboriginal economy of Porto Rico, witli particular refer- 

 ence to the artifacts and customs still extant, and giving promise 

 of future value to that newly acquired territory. 



Except for the diversion of a portion of the energies of a 

 few collaborators to the applications of ethnology, the work 

 has been continued along former lines; and, as heretofore, 

 most of the collaborators have been employed partly in the 

 field and partly in the office. 



The organization of the work, which is slightly modified by 

 the applications herein set forth, may be defined as follows: 

 (1) Physical characteristics (including the demography of the 

 native tribes), or somatology; (2) mental characteristics, or 

 psychology; (3) arts (including games, sports, etc.), or esthe- 

 tology; (4) industries (including economics), or technology; 

 (5) laws, or sociology; (6) languages, or philology; and (7) 

 myths (together with attendant ceremonies and other observ- 

 ances), or sophiology. Customary attention has been given 

 also to general and classific work, to the illustration, editing, 

 and publication of reports, to distribution of the published 

 material, and to the ancillary office work. 



FIELD RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION 



The Director spent more than three months in Maine, engaged 

 (so far as impaired health permitted) in researches among the 

 northeastern Algonquian Indians and in revising his classifi- 

 catory writings designed for the guidance of operations in the 

 Bureau. The linguistic and other material obtained, from the 

 Indians was utilized directly in the more general work, includ- 

 ing the linguistic classification described in other paragraphs. 



Under the immediate guidance. of Dr Franz Boas, philolo- 

 gist, Mr H. H. St. Clair, 2d, spent the first three months of the 

 year in linguistic researches in Wyoming and Oregon. In the 

 former State he made a full record of the local Shoshoni dialect, 

 and in the latter he made a partial collection of the lexic and 

 grammatic material of the Wasco and Paiute languages. 

 Under similar guidance, Mr William Jones made a critical 

 study of the Fox language in Iowa and Indian Territory ; and 



