XIV BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



for the purpose of making motion pictures representing 

 the industries, amusements, and ceremonies of the 

 Pueblo and other tribes, it being anticipated that such 

 pictures would prove of especial service for purposes of 

 immediate research as well as for permanent record. 

 The preliminary reports indicate that the work has been 

 successfvilly initiated. 



Throughout the fiscal year Dr Willis E . Everett remained 

 in Alaska, pursuing his vocation of mining engineer, 

 but availing himself of opportunities for observing the 

 native tribes and recording their languages and other 

 aetivital characteristics. Several reports indicating prog- 

 ress in the collection of such material were received in 

 the course of the year. 



Dr Robert Stein, who spent the winter of 1899-1900 in 

 Elsmereland, primarily for purposes of geographic explo- 

 ration, but incidentally to make search for traces of abo- 

 riginal occupancy in the interests of the Bureau, reported 

 via Dundee, through the courtesy of masters of whaling 

 vessels, late in the summer of 1900. He found no traces 

 of Eskimo or other settlements in the territory traversed 

 by him, comprising the eastern coast of Elsmereland, and 

 his negative evidence is of service in investigations relat- 

 ing to the distribution and migrations of the Eskimo. 

 At the time of the last report he was preparing to cross 

 Baffin bay to Upernivik, on the western coast of Green- 

 land, with the expectation of extending his previous 

 observations on prehistoric Eskimo settlements along the 

 unexplored coast. 



During the autumn Miss Alice C. Fletcher found it nec- 

 essary to revisit Oklahoma for the purpose of completing 

 the ritual of the Pawnee ceremony known "as the Hako, 

 of which the greater portion was collected during the last 

 fiscal year. In connection with the collection of this 

 material she was fortunate in obtaining also much addi- 

 tional information touching the ceremonial and ritualistic 

 life of this highly interesting and little -studied tribe. 



