ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT >^,-,^ 



For some years past photourapliy has Ijeeii omplovcMl in il„. 

 Bureau in such a maimer as to yield useful authn.puuM-tri.- 

 data. Thus, in dealing with the wilder trilx-s, uh.. w.mM 

 resist ordinary physical measuremeuts ou lidu(i:d or uiImt 

 oTOunds, the collaborators have made it a i)oim to ,,l,t;nn -roup 

 photographs with the figures so placed as to permit m.-asun- 

 ment of stature and other physical elements hy comparisou 

 with a normal figure introduced for the ))uriios<.: similarlv, 

 visiting Indians photographed in the Hurcaii laln.ratory have 

 usually been so placed with respect to l)ackgromids and <.tlier 

 objects as to permit physical measurements of sulHricnt accu- 

 racy for practical purposes. During the fiscal vear sp«-cial 

 attention was given to photographing indix i.huijs in exact 

 portrait, profile and full face, with the view (.f permitting 

 measurement of the facial angle, form of cranium, and otln-r 

 anthropometric elements. This was done not onlv in the 

 office, but to some extent in the field, especialK lt\ 1 >r iV.ink 

 Russell, who made a large number of profile and full-face 

 photographs of Pima Indians. Although the system is not vet 

 perfected, it gives promise of excellent results as the researches 

 in somatology progress. 



Various collaborators of the Bureau have collected crania 

 and other somatic material in connection with their field opera- 

 tions. For some years the material was preserv«'d in tin- 

 United States Army Medical Museum, but it has now h«-en 

 transferred to the United States National Museum, where the 

 current collections of the collaborators are now reguhirly sent. 

 In the absence of specialists in somatology in the Bureau ]»or- 

 tioiis of the somatic material have been jilaced during tin- last 

 year or two for special investigation in tlie hands of e\pert^ 

 not connected with either Bmcau or Mnsenni: and it i- a 

 pleasure to acknowledge the service rendered to tlie Hun-au 

 in this way by Dr George A. Dorsey, of Field (N.luml.ian 

 Museum, and Dr Ales llrdlicka, of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. A provisional anang.Muent ha> been made 

 for having such work done within th.- Ihncaii h. reafter. 



