ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT ive 
fore noted tends to show that several of the Lesser Antilles 
were marked by characteristic types of pottery, indicating 
their occupancy by a people superior in culture to the 
Carib and to those found there at the time of the discovery 
by Columbus. New light has been shed on the relations 
of these early Antillean people and the Orinoco tribes, 
which, although generally called Carib, were probably an 
antecedent people of higher culture. 
Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, spent the first three 
months of the fiscal year in continuing investigations 
among the East Cherokee of western North Carolina, and 
in locating and investigating mixed-blood remnant bands 
in the eastern part of that State. The Cherokee work 
consisted chiefly of a continuation and extension of the 
study of the aboriginal sacred formulas of the priests and 
doctors of the tribe, with the accompanying ceremonies 
and prescriptions. Although the former dances and tribal 
gatherings have fallen into disuse, the family rites and 
medical ceremonies still hold sway among the full bloods. 
The so-called ‘‘ Croatan Indians ”’ of southeastern North 
Carolina were found to be an important and prosperous 
community numbering about 8,000, evidently of Indian 
stock with admixture of negro and white blood and closely 
resembling the Pamunkey Indian remnant tribe in Vir- 
ginia, but with no survival of Indian language or custom 
and with almost no knowledge of their own history. After 
years of effort they have secured definite State recogni- 
tion as an Indian people. There is no foundation in fact 
for the name ‘‘ Croatan Indians,’’ which they themselves 
now repudiate, and in all probability they represent the 
mixed-blood descendants of the aboriginal tribes of the 
region which they now occupy. The existence was also 
established, and the location ascertained, of several smaller 
bands of similar mixed-blood stock, but without official 
recognition, in the eastern section of the two Carolinas. 
The remainder of the year was devoted by Mr. Mooney 
to the compilation of material in connection with his pend- 
ing study of Indian population. By reason of the shift- 
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