ADMINISTRATIVE KEPORT XI 



pletely to demoralize the Indians and to prevent dieni from 

 carrying- out their ceremonial plans, and at the same time to 

 place Dr Fewkes in grave personal danger. It accordingly 

 became necessary to abandon the work for the season. 



Early in the fiscal year an arrangement was effected with 

 the managers of the Trans-Mississippi and International Expo- 

 sition, at Omaha, b}' which Mr James Mooney cooperated with 

 them in the installation and conduct of an Indian congress. 

 In carrying out the plan Mr Mooney visited Indian Territory 

 and Oklahoma, and successfully enlisted the sympathy and aid 

 of representatives of variou.s tribes, including the Kiowa, with 

 whom he was intimately acquainted. Portions of the aborigi- 

 nal material obtained in the field for the use of the congress 

 were subsequently acquired for the National Museum. 



In August Dr Albert S. Gratschet revisited New Brunswick 

 for the purpose of continuing the collection and analysis of 

 Algonquian linguistic material. He sought new aboriginal 

 informants, and was able to make satisfactory additions to the 

 recorded dialects of the measurably distinct portion of the 

 great Algonquian stock occupying the northern Atlantic coast. 



In September Mr J. N. B. Hewitt proceeded to various 

 localities in New York and Ontario for the purpose of obtain- 

 ing additional material pertaining to both the languages and 

 the myths of the Iroquoian Indians, and the work, coupled 

 with efforts to obtain certain unique objects for the National 

 Museum, occupied him in the field until January. 



During- the autumn Mr J. B. Hatcher, who had previously 

 brought from Patagonia certain valuable ethnologic material 

 for the Museum, returned to the field and resumed collecting 

 and the making- of photographs illustrating the habits and 

 habitations of the Tehuelche tribe and the natives of Tierra 

 del Fuego. His work was not completed at the end of the 

 year. 



Dr Willis E. Everett, acting as a special agent of the Bureau, 

 visited various remote districts in Alaska and contiguous British 

 territoiy during the year, and obtained a quantity of linguistic 

 data of considerable use in classifying the aborigines of a little- 

 known district. 



