TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BIKE A I OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



By J. W. Powell, Director 



Ethnological researches have been conducted during 

 the year ending June 80, 1900, in aeeordanee with the 

 act of Congress making provision "for continuing 

 researches relating to the American Indians, under the 

 direction of the Smithsonian Institution," approved 

 March 3, 1899. 



The work of the year was carried forward in accord- 

 ance with a formal plan of operations submitted on May 

 13, 1899, and a])]nY)ved by the Secretary under date of 

 June IG, 1899. 



The field operations of the regular corps extended into 

 Ai'izona, California, Cuba, Indian Tenitory, Jamaica, 

 Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, New \"ork. Nova Scotia, 

 Oklahoma, Ontario, and Wisconsin, and operations were 

 conducted by special agents in Alaska, Argentina, and 

 Porto Rico. The office work comprised the collection 

 and preparation of material from most of the States and 

 Territories, as well as from various other ])arts of the 

 western hemisphere. 



As during previous years, the researches Iia\'e been 

 carried forward in accordance witli a scientific system 

 developed largely in this Bureau. This system is out- 

 lined in the classitication adoi)ted in previous repoi-ts and 

 continued in the present one. 



