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sociology peculiarly fit her for the presentation of a mon- 
ograph on this people. ] 
The herbarium of edible, medicinal, and fetishistic 
plants collected by Mrs Stevenson over an area 110 
miles north and south and 60 miles east and west from 
Zuni contains about 200 specimens. Among the many 
interesting varieties are a narcotic, Datura stramonium; a 
specific for hemorrhage, Ustilago, and a milkweed that 
the Zuni claim to be their native cotton. The fiber of 
the last is made at the present time into a cord for the 
more sacred objects used by the rain priests, and the Zuni 
assert that all of their cotton fabrics were woven of this 
plant before the advent of the Spaniards. Acknowledg- 
ments are due to Dr F. V. Coville, botanist, Department 
of Agriculture, and Dr J. N. Rose, assistant curator, 
United States National Museum, for their courteous as- 
sistance in providing Mrs Stevenson with facilities for 
preserving the collection and also for classifying the 
plants. 
At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr James Mooney 
was in the field in western Oklahoma, engaged in the 
prosecution of researches among the Kiowa and Cheyenne 
tribes in the joint interest of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology and the Field Columbian Museum, under an 
agreement made in the preceding year. Except during 
two brief visits to Washington, in September and in No- 
vember, 1902, Mr Mooney devoted the entire year to 
researches relating to the social customs, religion, and art 
of the tribes, especial attention being given to investiga- 
tions of the heraldry system of the Kiowa and Kiowa 
Apache tribes as exemplified in the old-time shields and 
decorated tipis. His work comprised the preparation of 
a full series of shield and tipi models on a suitable scale, 
together with related investigations and collections. The 
heraldry study and the series of models relating to the con- 
federated Kiowa and Kiowa Apache are nearly finished, 
and the latter is expected to constitute part of the Smith- 
sonian exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The 
