XXXVIII BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Translator and continued the transcription, translation, 

 and annotation of an early Jesuit manuscript history of 

 Texas, obtained through the instrumentality of the 

 Bureau, but now preserved in the Library of Congress. 

 The sketch was found rich in important ethnologic data, 

 and the anonymous author was identified by Colonel 

 Hilder, through collateral information, as Padre Morfi. 

 The work was nearly completed when brought to a pre- 

 mature end by the sudden death of Colonel Hilder on 

 January 21. 



PUBLICATION 



Mr F. W. Hodge continued in charge of the editorial 

 work until his resignation took effect, as already noted, 

 after which this work was conducted by Mr H. S. Wood. 

 The first part of the Seventeenth report and the first part 

 of the Eighteenth report were received from the Govern- 

 ment Printing Office during the year, and these, with the 

 second part of the Seventeenth report, have been distrib- 

 uted. The second part of the Eighteenth rei)ort was 

 not delivered at the end of June, while neither of the two 

 bulletins of the new series was quite complete ; and the 

 Nineteenth report, though nearly all in type, was not yet 

 ready for the bindery at the close of the year. 



Mr De Lancey Gill remained in charge of the illustra- 

 tive work, preparing copy for and revising proofs of the 

 numerous illustrations for the Eighteenth and Nineteenth 

 reports. He also made photo -portraits of some two hun- 

 dred Indians, chiefly members of delegations visiting 

 Washington in the interest of their tribes, and developed 

 a considerable number of negatives made by the several 

 collaborators in the field. 



COLLECTIONS 



As usual, the several collaborators engaged in field 

 operations made more or less extensive collections for 

 pui'poses of study and for ultimate transfer to the IT. S. 

 National Museum. The largest collection of the sort was 

 made by Mr McGee among the Cocopa Indians. It com- 



