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Prof. H. M. Ballou, in conjunction with Dr. Cyrus Thomas, for bibliographic 

 research in connection with the List of Works Relating to Hawaii, in course of 

 preparation for publication. 



The systematic ethnological researches by members of the regular staff of the 

 bureau are summarized as follows : 



Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist-in-charge, when administrative work permitted 

 devoted his attention almost exculsively to the editing of the Handbook of 

 American Indians (pt. 2), which was so far advanced toward completion at 

 the close of the fiscal year that it seemed very probable the volume would be 

 ready for distribution within about six months. As the work on part 2 was in 

 progress, advantage was taken of the opportunity afforded by the necessary 

 literary research in connection therewith to procure new data for incorporation 

 in a revised edition of the entire work, which it is proposed to issue as soon as 

 the first edition of part 2 has appeared. The demand for the handbook is 

 still very great, many thousands of requests having been received which could 

 not be supplied owing to the limited edition. 



With the exception of a brief trip, Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, remained 

 in the office throughout the entire fiscal year, occupied chiefly in the elaboration 

 of his study of Indian population, with frequent attention to work on the Hand- 

 book of American Indians, and to various routine duties, especially those con- 

 nected with supplying information to correspondents. The investigation of the 

 former and present population covers the entire territory north of Mexico, from 

 the discovery to the present time, and involves the close examination of a great 

 body of literature, particularly documentary records of the various colonies and 

 of the official reports of French and Spanish explorers and commanders, to- 

 gether with such special collections as the Jesuit Relations and the annual Indian 

 reports of the United States and Canadian governments from the beginning. 

 It is also necessary, first, to fix and differentiate the tribe, and then to follow 

 the wasting fortunes of each tribe and tribal remnant under change of name and 

 habitat, further subdivision, or new combination, to the end. For better han- 

 dling, the whole territory has been mapped into fifteen sections, each of which 

 has its own geographic and historical unity, and can thus be studied separately. 

 The investigation includes a summary of the Indian wars, and notable epidemics 

 within the same region from the discovery. No similar investigation has ever 

 before been attempted, even the official Indian reports being incomplete as to 

 identity of tribes and number of Indians not directly connected with agencies. 



In January, 1910, by request of those organizations, Mr. Mooney was desig- 

 nated to represent the Bureau of American Ethnology at the joint meeting of the 

 Mississippi Valley Historical Association and the Nebraska State Historical 

 Society, held at Lincoin, Nebraska, and delivered several addresses, with par- 

 ticular reference to the utilization of the methods and results of the Bureau in 

 local ethnologic and historical research. 



At the request of the Secretary of the Interior, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, ethnol- 

 ogist, continued the excavation and repair of the prehistoric ruins in the Mesa 

 Verde National Park, in southern Colorado, begun in the previous year. 

 Doctor Fewkes commenced work on Cliff Palace in May, 1909, and completed the 

 excavation and repair of this celebrated ruin in August. He then proceeded to 

 northwestern Arizona, and made a reconnoissance of the Navaho National 

 Monument, visiting and studying the extensive cliff and other ruins of that 

 section, knowledge of the existence of which he had gained many years ago 

 during his ethnological researches among the Hopi Indians. At the close of 

 this investigation Doctor Fewkes returned to Washington and prepared for the 

 Secretary of the Interior a report on the excavation and repair of Cliff Palace, 

 which was published by the Department of the Interior in November. A more 



