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he proceeded west -northwestward over the old Yuma 

 trail (including a sti'etch of 90 miles now without water) 

 to Yuma, and thence southward to the Cocopa country. 

 Here valuable collections, notes, and photographs were 

 obtained ; and after some weeks the party returned via 

 Yuma and the Grila and Salado valleys to Phoenix, dis- 

 banding there on December 20. The party comprised 

 Mr W J McGee, Ethnologist in Charge, as leader; Mr 

 DeLancey Gill, artist; Professor R. H. Forbes, of the 

 territorial university of Arizona (during part of the 

 trip) ; Senor Aurelio Mata, a Mexican customs officer 

 sent from the custom-house at Nogales to facilitate the 

 crossing at the international boundary; John J. Carroll, 

 of Tempe, teamster; Jim Moberly, of Teinpe, packer; 

 Hugh Norris, of Tucson, Papago interpreter, and Ramon 

 Zapeda, of Tucson, Mexican interpreter. The Bureau 

 was placed under great obligations for free entry of the 

 outfit to the government of the neighboring republic 

 through the officers already named, as well as through 

 Senor Don Eduardo J. Andrade, of Yuma, custodian of 

 the Andrade grant, covering the territory occupied by 

 the Cocopa Indians. 



On August 11 Mr James Mooney proceeded to the old 

 Cherokee country in western North Carolina and adjacent 

 territory for the purpose of collecting additional data 

 required for the completion of his series of papers on the 

 Cherokee Indians, and his field operations continued with 

 success until early December. On April 25 he made a 

 reconnoissance trip through eastern North Carolina and 

 Virginia for the piu'pose of locating remnants of alwrigi- 

 nal tribes still surviving in the wooded and nearly inac- 

 cessible districts of that region; he revisited the Pamun- 

 key tribe and discovered considerable remnants of the 

 Chickahominy, Mattaponi, and Nansemond tribes. 



On his ap|)ointment as Assistant Ethnologist (Septem- 

 ber 1) , Mr John R. Swanton proceeded to British Colum- 

 bia to undertake researches among several northwestern 

 tribes. His work proceeded successfully up to the end of 

 the fiscal year, when he was still in the field. 



