ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 



the less known pueblos of the plateau country and val- 

 leys of New Mexico and Arizona and to <»l)tain data 

 relating to social oraanization, migrations, and customs, 

 as well as typical photographs of individuals, haliitations, 

 etc. All of the existing pueblos of New Mexico were 

 visited and many of the ruins. The trip yielded a large 

 body of data for incorporation in the reports, and espe- 

 cially in the Cyclopedia of Native Tribes. 



About the middle of September Dr J. Walker Fewkes 

 proceeded to New Mexico for the purpose of completing 

 his investigation of the mythology and cei^ertlonies of the 

 Hopi Indians, his trip being so timed as to permit obser- 

 vation of the autumn and winter ceremonies not pre- 

 viously observed by ethnologic students. He remained 

 in the pueblo throughout the winter, and his studies 

 proved eminently fruitful. Toward the end of March he 

 repaired to Arizona for the purpose of locating aljoriginal 

 ruins near Little Colorado river, concerning which vague 

 rumors were afloat; and this work, also, was quite suc- 

 cessful, as is noted in another paragraph. 



During the early autumn Dr Albert S. Gatschet visited 

 several groups of survivors of Algonquian tribes on Cape 

 Breton island for the jnirpose of extending the studies of 

 the previous year in New Brunswick; he succeeded in 

 obtaining considerable linguistic material, in addition to 

 other data pertaining to the northeasternmost represent- 

 atives of that great Algonquian -speaking people neigh- 

 boring the Eskimo on their north and extending thence 

 southward more than half way across the present territory 

 of the United States. 



Early in the winter Mr J. N. B. Hewitt revisited the 

 remnants of several Iroquoian tribes in New York and 

 Ontario and continued the collection and coniiiarisou of 

 the tribal traditions. Finding the conditions favorable 

 for recording some of the more noteworthy traditions, he 

 spent several weeks in an Indian village near Hamilton, 

 Ontario, returning to the office in April. 



