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neighboring peoples, resulting in the discovery that a number of important tribes 

 were designated by the names Susquehanna, Conestoga or Andastes, Massa- 

 womek, Erie, Black Minquas, Tehotitachsae, and Atrakwayeronon (Akhrak- 

 wayeronon). It is proposed to incorporate this material into a bulletin, with 

 several early maps, in order to make it available to students of the history of 

 the Indians of Pennsylvania and New York, and their relations with white 

 people. Mr. Hewitt also devoted about two months to the translation of Onon- 

 daga native texts relating to the New Year ceremony, and began work on the 

 classification of the late Jeremiah Curtin's Seneca legends, with a view of pre- 

 paring them for publication by the Bureau. 



As custodian of the linguistic manuscripts in the Bureau archives, Mr. Hewitt 

 spent considerable time in installing this material, comprising 1,704 items, on 

 its removal from the former quarters of the Bureau to the Smithsonian building. 

 He was frequently occupied also in receiving manuscripts and in searching 

 and charging those required by collaborators either for temporary or for pro- 

 longed use. Much time and labor were also devoted by Mr. Hewitt to the collec- 

 tion and preparation of data of an ethnological character for replies to corre- 

 spondents. 



Dr. Cyrus Thomas, ethnologist, while not engaged in revising the proofs of 

 Bulletin 44, Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America and their Geo- 

 graphical Distribution, prepared by him with the assistance of Doctor Swanton, 

 devoted his attention to the elaboration of the List of Works Relating to Hawaii, 

 with the collaboration of Prof. H. M. Ballou. Toward the close of the fiscal 

 year, this work having been practically finished, Doctor Thomas undertook an 

 investigation of the relations of the Hawaiians to other Polynesian peoples, 

 but unfortunately this work was interrupted in May by illness which terminated 

 in his death on June 26. Doctor Thomas had been a member of the Bureau's 

 staff since 1882 and, as his memoirs published by the Bureau attest, one of its 

 most industrious and prolific investigators. 



As the result of a special civil-service examination held March 3, 1910, the 

 staff of the Bureau was increased by the appointment, as ethnologists, of 

 Dr. Truman Michelson on June 1 and of Dr. Paul Radin on June 3. 



Doctor Badin immediately made preparations to resume his researches among 

 the Winnebago Indians in Nebraska and Wisconsin, commenced under personal 

 auspices three years before, and by the close of the fiscal year was making excel- 

 lent progress toward completing his studies of this important Siouan group. 



About the same time Doctor Michelson departed for Montana with the purpose 

 of studying the Blackfeet, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern. Arapaho, Algon- 

 quian tribes, whose relations to the other members of the stock are not 

 definitely known. It is the intention that Doctor Michelson obtain a view of 

 the relations of the Algonquian tribes generally, in order that he may become 

 equipped for an exhaustive study of the Delaware and Shawnee tribes, so impor- 

 tant in the colonial and later history of the United States. Doctor Michelson 

 reached the Blackfoot country on June 16, and within a few days had recorded 

 a considerable body of ethnological, mythological, and linguistic material relat- 

 ing to the Piegan division. 



The special researches of the Bureau in the linguistic field were conducted, 

 as in the past, by Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, whose work during the 

 fiscal year resulted in bringing nearly to completion the first volume of the 

 Handbook of American Indian Languages. The whole matter is in type, 735 

 pages were in practically final form at the close of the fiscal year, and the sketches 

 of only three languages remained to be revised before paging. Besides the purely 

 technical work of revising and proof reading, the most important work on the 



