EXPLORATIONS AND FIELD-WORK OF THE SMITH- 

 SONIAN INSTITUTION IN 1917 



CONTENTS 



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Introduction 2 



Geological Explorations in the Canadian Rockies 4 



Charles D. Walcott. 



Geological and Paleontological Field-Work 20 



North Carolina Solar Radiation Observatory 25 



C. G. Abbott. 



Grasses of the Adirondack and White Mountains 29 



A. S. Hitchcock. 



Biological Explorations in Cuba and Haiti 40 



Paul Bartsch. 



The Cerion Colonies in Florida 48 



Paul Bartsch. 



Anthropological Studies on Old American Families — 



a. Studies at Yale University, Harvard University and the University 



of Virginia 49 



b. Mountaineers of Tennessee 50 



c. Shawnee and .Kickapoo Indians 55 



Ales Hrdlicka. 



Excavations at Hawikuh, New Mexico 61 



F. W. Hodge. 



Ancient Pit Dwellings in New Mexico "^i 



Walter Hough. 



Archeological Work in Arizona and Utah 74 



Neil M. Judd. 



Tribal Rites of Osage Indians 84 



Francis LaFlesche. 



Study of the Fox, Sauk and Potawatomi Indians 90 



Truman Michelson. 



Studies among the Indians of California 92 



J. P. Harrington. 



Study of Chippewa Material Culture 95 



Frances Densmore. 



Ethnologic Work in Louisiana 100 



John R. Swanton. 



Ethnology of the Iroquois 106 



J. N. B. Hewitt. 



Prehistoric Ruins in Southwestern Colorado and Southeastern Utah loS 



J. Walter Fewkes. 



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