TWENTY- SECOND ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



J. W. Powell, Director 



INTRODUCTION 



Ethnologic researches have been conducted during the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, in accordance with the act 

 of Congress making provision ' ' for continuing researches 

 relating to the American Indians under the direction of 

 the Smithsonian Institution," approved June 6, 1900, and 

 with the formal plan submitted June 9, 1900, and approved 

 by the Secretary June 19, 1900. 



The field operations of the regular corps extended into 

 Arizona, British Columbia, California, Lower California 

 (Mexico), Maine, New Mexico, New Y^ork, North Caro- 

 lina, Ontario, Sonora (Mexico) , Virginia, and Wisconsin; 

 while special work has been carried forward by agents or 

 temporary collaborators in several additional states, ter- 

 ritories, and provinces. The office work has comprised 

 the preparation and study of material from most of the 

 states and territories, as well as from various other parts 

 of the American hemisphere. 



The researches have been carried forward in accord- 

 ance with an ethnic system based chiefly on the work of 

 the Bureau, though partly on the observations and deter- 

 minations of other scientific investigators in this and 

 other countries. 



The ethnic system developed and adopted in the Bureau 

 is based primarily on the human activities — that is, on what 

 men do and think — rather than on mere physical features. 



