XVI BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Under a special arrangement, Miss Alice C. Fletcher visited 

 Oklahoma early in the fiscal year for the purpose of verifying 

 iuul extending her records of certain Pawnee rituals for i)ubli- 

 cation by the Bureau. Later she employed certain aged 

 Pawnee Indians to recite the ancient rituals in such manner 

 as to permit the making of phonographic and other records. 

 Her efforts have resulted in unique contributions to knowledge 

 of the esoteric customs connected with human sacrifice and 

 other rites in pre-Columbian times that still survive in emble- 

 matic form. A part of the material has been incorporated in a 

 monograjjh on the Hako, forming part of the Twenty-second 

 Annual Report. Also, under a special arrangement, Dr Willis 

 E. Everette sent in useful records concerning the Athapascan 

 tribes of Alaska. 



During the earlier part of the year Mr 0. P. Phillips was 

 employed temporarily in making motion pictures, represent- 

 inp" the industries, amusements, and ceremonies of the Pueblo 

 Indians and other tribes in New Mexico and Arizona. The 

 object of the work was to obtain absolutely trustworthy 

 records of aboriginal activities for the use of future students, 

 as well as for the verification of current notes on fiducial 

 dances and other ceremonies. Despite accidents that hap- 

 pened to the apparatus the work was fairly successful, yield- 

 ing about a dozen kinetoscope ribbons, in connection with 

 which about a hundred excellent photographs were made by 

 Mr Phillips. The apparatus was kindly furnislied in the inter- 

 ests of science by the Armat Moving Picture Company, of 

 Washington. 



Although occupied chiefly in administrative work, the Eth- 

 nologist in Chai-ge made a reconnaissance in eastern central 

 Colorado early in the fiscal year, visiting certain archeologic 

 localities, notably in the vicinity of Pueblo, Colo., and tracing 

 the conditions affecting tribal movements during prehistoric 

 times about the border land between the peoples of the plains 

 and those of the mountains and plateaus. 



On August 16 Dr J. Walter Fewkes proceeded to southern 

 Colorado and northern New Mexico for the purpose of extend- 

 ing archeologic explorations in districts hitherto inadequately 



