NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



By J. W. Powell, Director 



INTRODUCTION 



Ethnologic researches have been conducted di;ring the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1898, in accordance with the act of 

 Congress making jn'ovision "for continuing researches rehiting 

 to the American Indians, under the direction of the Smitlisoniau 

 Institution," approved June 4, 1897. 



The work has been cai'ried forward in accordance with a 

 plan of operations submitted on June 14, 1897. The field 

 operations of the Director and the coUaliorators have extended 

 into Arizona, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Indian Territory', Maine, 

 New Brunswick, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Ontario, 

 and Texas, while special agents have conducted operations iu 

 Alaska, Argentina, British Columbia, California, Cliile, Green- 

 land, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Washington state. The otfice 

 work has included the collection of material from Indian tribes 

 in Arizona, Idaho, Indian Territor}-, Kentucky, ]\Iimiesota, 

 Montana, Nebraska, Nortli Dakota, New York, Oklahoma, 

 Pennsvlvania, Soutli Dakota, and Texas. The researches in 

 the office have dealt with material from nearly all of the states 

 and from other portions of the American continent. 



The organization of the work has gfrown out of a classifica- 

 tion of ethnic science based on the researclies of the Bureau. 



