the arcumulated information of many 

 years. 



The more strirtly scieiitilic results re- 

 late to every department of anthropoiouic 

 research — physical, psych<ilo^ncal, lin- 

 guistic, sociologic, religious, teclinic, and 

 esthetic — and are emhodied in mnnerous 

 papers puhlisluMl in the reports, contrihn- 

 tiuns, and bulletins; and the general re- 

 sults in each of these departments, com- 

 piled and collated by the highest availal)le 

 autliorities, have now begun to appear in 

 the form of handbooks. 



Maj. Powell, director, died Sept. 23, 

 1902, and on Oct. 11 W. H. Holmes was 

 appointed to succeed him, with the title 

 of chief. In addition to tlie chief the 

 scientific staff of the Bureau comprises 

 (1906) 7 ethnologists, an illustrator, an 

 editor, a librarian, an<l 7 other emjjloyees. 

 Besides the regular scientific members 

 of tlie Bureau there are numerous asso- 

 ciates or collaborators, including many 

 of the best-known ethnologists of the 

 country, who contribute papers or who 

 engage at intervals in research work 

 under the Bureau's auspices. The li- 

 brary contains about 12,000 volumes 

 and 7,000 pamphlets, accumulated largely 

 through exchange of publications. There 

 are about 1,600 linguistic manuscripts, 

 and 15,000 photographic negatives illus- 

 trating the aborigines and their activi- 

 ties. 



The publications consist of Contri])u- 

 tions to North American Ethnology, An- 

 nual Reports, Bulletins, Introductions, 

 and Miscellaneous Publications. The 

 series of contributions was begun by the 

 Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region 

 before the organization of the Bureau, 3 

 volumes having been completed, and 

 was discontinued after 8 volumes had 

 been issued. Twenty-three annual re- 

 ports, comprising 28 volumes, 30 bulle- 

 tins (including the present Handbook) , 4 

 introductions, and 6 miscellaneous pub- 

 lications have appeared. The present 

 edition of the annual reports and bulle- 

 tins is 9,850 copies, of which the Senate 

 receives 1,500, the House of Rejiresenta- 

 tives 3,000, and the Bureau 3,500 copies. 

 Of the Bureau edition 500 are distributed 

 by the Smithsonian Institution. From 

 the remaining 1,850 copies are drawn the 

 personal copies of members of Congress, 

 and 500 for distribution to Government 

 libraries and other libraries throughout 

 the country, as designated by Congress; 

 the remainder are sold by the Superin- 

 tendentof Documents, Government Print- 

 ing Office. With the exception of tlie few- 

 disposed of by tlie Superintendent of 

 Documents, the publications are distrib- 

 uted free of charge; the popular demand 

 for them is so great, however, that the 

 editions are soon exhausted. The quota 



allowed the Bureau is distributed to 

 libraries, to institutions of learning, and 

 to collaborators and others engaged in 

 anthroiMilogic research or in teaching. 

 The publications are as follows: 



COiNTRlBl'TIONS TO \oRTH .'\MKKICAN ETH- 



NOi,()(;v. — Publisheii in fiart under the auspices 

 (if the Doimrtmciit of the Interior, L'. 8. Geo- 

 Kr!ii>hicHl (infl (ii;olo(<iciil Siarvey of the Rocky 

 Mountain Region, J. \V. Powell in charge. Vols, 

 i-vii and i.\. 

 Vol. I, 1877: 

 Part I.— Tribes of the e.\treme Northwest, by 

 W. H. Dall. 

 On the distribution and nomenclature of 

 the native tribes of Alaska and the adja- 

 cent territory. 

 On succession in the shell-heaps of the 



Aleutian islands. 

 On the origin of the Innuit. 

 Appendix to part I. Linguistics. 

 Notes on the natives of Alaska, by .1. Furu- 



hclni. 

 Terms of relationship used by the Innuit: a 

 series obtained from natives of Cumber- 

 land inlet, by W. H. Dall. 

 Vocabularies, by George Gibbs and W. H. 



Dall, 

 Note on the use of numerals among the 

 T'sim si-an', by George Gibbs. 

 Part It. Tribes of "western Washington and 

 northwestern Oregon, by George Gibbs, 

 Appendix to part n. Linguistics. 

 Vocabularies, by George Gibbs, Wm. F. 



Tolmie, and G. Mengarini. 

 Dictionary of the Niskwalli, bv George 

 Gibbs. 

 Vol. II, 1890: 

 The Klamath Indians of southwestern Oregon, 

 by Albert Samuel Gatsehet, Two parts. 

 Vol. Ill, 1877: 

 Tribes of California, by Stephen Powers. 

 Appendix, Linguistics, edited bv J, W. 

 Powell, 

 Vol, IV, ISSl: 

 Houses and house-life of the American aborig- 

 ines, bv Lewis H, Morgan, 

 Vol, v,1882: 

 Observations on cup-shaped and other lapida- 

 rian sculptures in the Old World and in 

 America, by Charles Rau. 

 On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets, 



by Robert Fletcher, 

 A study of the manuscript Troano, by Cyrus 

 Thomas, with an introduction by D. G. 

 Brinton. 

 Vol, VI, 1890: 



The (pegiha language, by J. Owen Dorsey, 

 Vol. VII, 1890: 

 A Dakota-English dictionary, by Stephen R. 

 Riggs, edited by J. Owen Dorsey. 

 Vol, VIII: 



[Not issued] . 

 Vol, IX, 1893: 

 Dakota grammar, texts, and ethnography, by 

 Stephen R. Riggs, edited by J, Owen Dorsey, 

 A.VNU.4L Reports of the Bureau of (Ameri- 

 can) Ethnology to the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. 23 vols, roy, 8°. 

 First Report (1879-80), 1881. 

 Report of the Director. 



On the evolution of language, as exhibited 

 in the specialization of the grammatic proces.ses: 

 the ditTerentiation of the parts of speech, and 

 the integration of the sentence; from a study of 

 Inilian languages, by J, W, Powell, 



Sketch of the mythology of the North American 

 Indians, by J. W. Powell. 



Wyandot government: A short study of tribal 

 society, by ,1, W, Powell, 



On limitations to the use of some anthropologic 

 data, by ,T. W. Powell. 



A further contribution to the study of the mor- 

 tuary customs of the North American Indians, by 

 H. C. Yarrow, 



Studies in Central American picture-writing, 

 by Edward S, Holden. 



