ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXXIII 
Professor W. H. Holmes’ bulletin, entitled “An Ancient Quarry 
in Indian Territory,” was received from the folding room dur- 
ing the month. The bulletin on “Archeologic Investigations 
in James and Potomac Valleys,” by Gerard Fowke, has 
reached the second-revise stage. 
The distribution of the eleventh and twelfth annual reports 
and of volume 1x of Contributions to North American Eth- 
nology was continued during the month. 
OPERATIONS DURING NOVEMBER 
The field work of the month was confined to that of a single 
party conducted by Mr W J McGee, Ethnologist in Charge, 
in Arizona and contiguous portions of Sonora. The beginning 
of the month found the party in the vicinity of several Papago 
villages and rancherias (the largest being that of Querobabi) 
in Sonora. The expedition proceeded thence southward to 
the neighborhood of Hermosillo, where other rancherias of the 
Papago Indians were found and where additional information 
was obtained concerning the southernmost representatives of 
the tribe midway between that point and the Gulf coast at 
Guaymas. On completing the study of the Papago Indians in 
this vicinity, it was found expedient to extend the journey into 
the territory of the Seri Indians, doubtless the most primitive 
tribe remaining on the North American continent, and one of 
the most primitive ever found on the Western Hemisphere. 
The territory of these Indians comprises Tiburon island, in the 
Gulf of California, together with a few small neighboring 
islands, as well as an ill-defined area of some thousand square 
miles on the mainland of Sonora. The party, with two or 
three temporary additions, proceeded to Rancho de San Fran- 
cisco de Costa Rica on the border of the Seri territory, and 
near there they were fortunate in finding some sixty mem- 
bers of the tribe, comprising a quarter or a third of the sur- 
vivors of this interesting people. Their habits and modes of 
life, with their arts and art products, were studied with such 
fullness as the circumstances permitted, and a vocabulary of 
some four hundred words was collected for the purpose of 
determining the ethnic relations of the tribe. A series of some 
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