LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, 



Washington, D. C, July 15, 1931. 

 Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the Forty- 

 eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 

 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1931. 



With appreciation of your aid in the work under my 

 charge, I am 



Very respectfully yours, 



M. W. Stirling, 



Chief. 

 Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



