44 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1909. 



Early in the year the bureau was urged by the officers of the Mississippi 

 Valley Historical Association to contribute data relating to the history of the 

 Indian tribes of the region for the meeting of the association convened in 

 St. Louis Jmie 15, 1909. The chief contributed a paper entitled " Remarks on 

 the aboriginal history of the Mississippi Valley ; " and Mr. James Mooney and 

 Dr. John R. Swanton were designated to attend the meeting and present papers 

 dealing with kindred subjects. 



Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, remained in the field, in New Mexico, 

 during the entire year. Having established headquarters at Espaiiola, she 

 devoted her time largely to investigations among the local Pueblo tribes, inter- 

 rupting the work for short periods to record valuable data communicated by 

 visiting members of the Zufii tribe. Her researches included detailed studies 

 of the history, social organization and customs, religion and religious prac- 

 tices, and arts and industries of the Santa Clara and San Ildefonso tribes ; and 

 progress was made in the comparative study of these varied subjects among the 

 numerous pueblos. 



Aside from the more systematic ethnological work, Mrs. Stevenson gave much 

 attention to her unfinished papers on " The preparation of cotton, yucca, and 

 wool for the loom by the New Mexican tribes " and on the " Medicinal and food 

 plants used by the Zuhi Indians." 



Mr. F. TV. Hodge, ethnologist, was engaged chiefly in continuing the editorial 

 work on Part 2 of the Handbook of American Indians, carrying along the proof 

 reading toward the close of the alphabet and writing and inserting many ar- 

 ticles on lesser subjects that it had been found essential to include. In this 

 work he had the assistance especially of Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, who prepared 

 articles pertaining chiefly to the Iroquois tribes; of Mr. William R. Gerard, of 

 New York, who revised and rewrote numerous articles involving the etymology 

 of Indian terms; and of Dr. Herbert E. Bolton, of the University of Texas, 

 who continued to supply, to the end of the alphabet, articles relating to the 

 tribes of Texas. The work of completing the second part of the Handbook 

 of American Indians did not proceed as rapidly as was hoped at the beginning 

 of the year, owing to the fact that the burden of the administrative work of 

 the bureau devolved upon Mr. Hodge when the chief was called to South 

 America and later to the Seattle Exposition, as previously mentioned. In the 

 handbook work Mr. Hodge had the clerical assistance of Mrs. Frances Nichols. 

 It is now expected that Part 2 will be ready for distribution in the near 

 future. Mr. Hodge represented the bureau on the Smithsonian advisory com- 

 mittee on printing and publication, and served also as a member of the sub- 

 committee on bibliographical citations. In addition he prepared answers to 

 many inquiries from correspondents, oftentimes requiring considerable research. 



Dr. Cyrus Thomas, ethnologist, devoted his time during the year to work 

 on the catalogue of books and papers relating to the Hawaiian Islands. This 

 catalogue, in the preparation of which Prof. H. M. Ballou, of Boston, Mass., 

 is joint author, has grown to an extent not anticipated at the outset. During 

 the last and next preceding fiscal years Professor Ballou examined, for this 

 purpose, the libraries of Boston and other cities of New England, and also 

 of New York. He also visited Hawaii, where he made a careful examination 

 of the public and private libraries of Honolulu, obtaining thereby considerable 

 early mission and official material of a bibliographical nature not found else- 

 where. During the same period Doctor Thomas visited Boston and Worcester 

 twice, searching the libraries chiefly along special lines to which Professor 

 Ballou had not given exhaustive attention ; he also devoted considerable time 

 to an examination of the libraries of Washington. In addition to these 

 researches considerable bibliographical material has been obtained by corre- 



