14 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



Accession No. 



110113. Decorated elk-skin pouch made by Fritz Hanson, a Karuk 

 Indian of Somesbar, Siskiyou County, Calif., and pur- 

 chased from him by the bureau. (1 specimen.) 



110319. Archeological material collected in 1928 by Dr. F. H. H. 

 Roberts, jr., from early Pueblo ruins in the Piedra District, 

 Archuleta County, southwestern Colorado. (477 speci- 

 mens.) 



PROPERTY 



Office equipment was purchased to the amount of $64.78. 

 MISCELLANEOUS 



The correspondence and other clerical work of the office 

 has been conducted by Miss May S. Clark, clerk to the chief, 

 assisted by Mr. Anthony W. Wilding, clerk. Miss Mae W. 

 Tucker, stenographer, was engaged in completing the cata- 

 logue of phonograph records of Indian music, copying man- 

 uscripts for Doctor Swanton, and in assisting Mr. Hewitt 

 in his work as custodian of manuscripts and phonograph 

 records. Mrs. Frances S. Nichols assisted the editor. 



During the course of the year information was furnished 

 by members of the staff in reply to numerous inquiries con- 

 cerning the North American Indian peoples, both past and 

 present, and the Mexican peoples of the i^rehistoric and early 

 historic periods to the south. Various specimens sent to the 

 bureau were identified and data on them furnished for their 

 owners. 



Personnel — Dr. Francis LaFlesche retired as ethnologist 

 of the bureau December 26, 1929. 



Respectfully submitted. 



M. W. Stirling, Chief. 



Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretory, Smithsonian Institution. 



