ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXIX 
progress has been made and the results have proved more 
satisfactory than Mr Pilling had previously been led to antici- 
pate. The final arrangement under authors’ names has been 
advanced to the end of the letter M. 
Publications—The Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau was 
received during the month, and its distribution, along with 
that of the Eleventh Annual Report, received during August, 
was commenced at once. Nearly all of the matter of the 
Thirteenth Annual Report is now in pages. 
Volume rx of the Contributions to North American Ethnol- 
ogy, comprising “ Dakota Grammar, Texts and Ethnography,” 
by 8. R. Riggs, edited by Mr J. Owen Dorsey, was received 
from the Government Printing Office, and its distribution 
begun. 
Dr Boas’ bulletin on “Chinook Texts” is now in pages, has 
been ordered stereotyped, and the plate proofs are expected 
daily. Mr Mooney’s bulletin on the “Siouan Tribes of the 
East” is complete with the exception of the index, and has been 
ordered cast. The bulletin by Professor W. H. Holmes, 
entitled “An Ancient Quarry in Indian Territory,” will be 
received from the folding room within a day or two. The 
bulletin on ‘“‘Archeologic Investigations in James and Potomac 
Valleys,” by Gerard Fowke, has passed through the stage of 
first revise. The bulletin by Mr Hodge, a “List of the Publi- 
cations of the Bureau of Ethnology,” transmitted for publica. 
tion during last month, has now been stereotyped and ordered 
printed. 
OPERATIONS DURING OCTOBER 
Field work—Vhe only work done in the field during the 
month consisted of the operations among the Papago Indians 
of southern Arizona and contiguous portions of Mexico, begun 
in September by Mr W J McGee, the Ethnologist in Charge, 
and his assistant, Mr William Dinwiddie. Having outfitted 
at Tucson, Arizona, for an extended trip through Papagueria 
(the land of the Papago), the party worked southward 
through the valleys of Santa Cruz and San Luis, visiting all 
of the Papago villages as well as nearly all of the Mexican 
