ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXI 
the report on his researches will appear in the Twenty - 
fourth Annual Report of the Bureau under the title: The 
Pima Indians of Arizona. His active connection with 
the Bureau ceased on October 30, but certain unfinished 
portions of the work were completed subsequently. 
Mr Stewart Culin, of the Brooklyn Institute Museum, 
has completed an elaborate monograph on native Ameri- 
can games which he has had in preparation for some 
years. This monograpo appears as the accompanying 
paper of this report. 
In September Mr R. H. Partridge was commissioned 
by the Acting Director to visit New Mexico for the pur- 
pose of mapping certain ancient ruins situated in the 
valley of the Rio Hermoso, Socorro county. A month 
was spent in the work, and the map produced and a brief 
report descriptive of the exploration have been placed in 
the Bureau archives. 
Dr Albert E. Jenks, ethnologist, on furlough from the 
Bureau and connected with the Ethnological Survey for 
the Philippine Islands, has communicated some details 
of a successful expedition conducted by himself among 
the Bontoe Igorrotes of northern Luzon. About the 
close of the year he became acting chief of the Ethno- 
logical Survey, Doctor Barrows, the chief, having been 
appointed commissioner of education for the islands. 
Under the immediate direction of Dr Franz Boas, hon- 
orary philologist, important linguistic studies were made. 
by Mr H. H. St Clair, 2d, among the Ute, Shoshoni, and 
Comanche tribes. Numerous texts, grammatical notes, 
and vocabularies were collected, and in parts of this work 
the phonograph was used with success. That instrument 
was employed for recording the dictation of old men, and 
then the record was repeated slowly by interpreters. 
During the winter months Mr St Clair assisted Doctor 
Boas in carrying forward various linguistic studies; in 
addition, he continued work on a Chinook dictionary, 
on which considerable progress had previously been 
made, and in June, 1903, began work among certain tribal 
