ADMINISTKATIVK REl'ORT XXIX 



Mr F. W. Hodge, with the assistance of" ])r Cyrus Tlioinas, 

 the former carr\Mug forward the work in connection witli other 

 duties. Dr Thomas completed the prehminary arrangement 

 of tlie material i-elating to the tribes of the Algouquian stock, 

 submitting the material for editorial revision. He afterward 

 took lip the manuscript and literature relating" to the tribes of 

 the Siouau stock, and has made satisfactory progress in the 

 ai'raugement of the material. 



Collections 



A number of collections have been acquired during the year 

 under the more iumiediate direction of the Secretary. Some 

 of these are noted above ; in addition there have been acquired 

 (1) a collection of Jamaican antiquities by MacCormack, 

 including 160 specimens of ancient stone inqjlements, earthen- 

 ware, etc., and 20 petaloid implements; (2) the Palmer collec- 

 tion of 98 ethnologic s])ecimens from Mexico; and (3) the 

 Gane collection of cliff-house relics, comprising fictile ware, 

 bone implements, etc., from San Juan valley, Utah. In addi- 

 tion, the ]\Iuniz collection of trephined skulls, illusti-ated and 

 described in tlie sixteenth annual report, was finalh* transferred 

 to- the Museum. A considerable number of separate objects 

 and minor collections olitained by exchange for reports and 

 bv gift has also been turned over to the Museum duriuL;- tlie 

 year; among- these was a Muskwaki hand-loom obtained by 

 Mr McGee for the express purpose of tilling a hiatus in the 

 national collection: 



Publication 



Satisfactory progress has been made by Mr Hodge in the 

 i-evision of the proofs of the seventeenth and eighteenth annual 

 reports and in theeditori;d work on the manuscript of the nine- 

 teenth annual rej)ort. '^Phe seventeenth report was transmitted 

 to the Public Printer through the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution on July 6, 18!I7. In addition to the usual account 

 of the operations of the Bureau tlie seventeentli annual report 

 contains four memoirs, bearing the titles, The Seri Indians, 

 by W J McGee; Calendar IIistor\' of the Kiowa Indians, Ijy 

 James Moouey; Navaho Houses, by Cosmos Mindeleff, and 



