LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 Institute of Social Anthropology, 

 Washington 25, D. C, June 21, lOJtIt. 



Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a manuscript entitled 

 "Cheran: A Sierra Tarascan Village," by Ralph L. Beals, and to recom- 

 mend that it be published as Publication Number 2 of the Institute of 

 Social Anthropology, which has been established by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution as an autonomous unit of the Bureau of American Ethnology to 

 carry out cooperative work in social anthropology with the American 

 Republics as part of the program of the Interdepartmental Committee on 

 Cultural and Scientific Cooperation. 

 Very respectfully yours, 



Julian H. Steward, Director. 

 Dr. C. G. Abbot, 



Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



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