x BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
the time of Major Powell’s death. On October 11, 1902, 
Mr W. H. Holmes, head curator in the department of 
anthropology, United States National Museum, was 
appointed Chief of the Bureau, and he assumed charge 
of the office on October 13. 
The research work of the Bureau has been carried on 
by a permanent force of nine scientific employees, while a 
number of temporary assistants have been engaged for 
brief periods in the office and among the western tribes. 
During the year five members of the staff have spent a 
part of their time in the field. The regions visited 
include Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Indiana, Minne- 
sota, Missouri, Kansas, lowa, Oklahoma, Indian Terri- 
tory, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Idaho, California, 
Porto Rico, and Santo Domingo. 
The researches, which have been of exceptional impor- 
tance, have dealt with numerous branches of primitive 
culture and history, practical questions having been kept 
as much as possible in view. The completion of reports 
on field exploration and the preparation of papers dealing 
with special problems have claimed much attention, and 
every effort has been made to bring up to date and to 
submit for publication researches that have been matur- 
ing during previous years. The preparation of data for 
a Handbook of the Indian Tribes has been a principal 
feature of the year’s work, claiming the attention of all 
available members of the Bureau staff and employing the 
services of a number of special students. 
The range of the scientific work has been wide. Phi- 
lology, sociology, sophiology, technology, and esthetics 
have received attention from those conducting investi- 
gations among the tribes in the field and those engaged 
in office research, but only incidental attention has been 
given to somatology and psychology. 
In the nonscientifie work of the Bureau—library, 
photographic, editorial, and clerical—ten persons have 
been employed, and many changes made in method and 
routine. 
