56 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1912. 



large number of scientific serials received might also be made readily 

 accessible, the current issues have been displayed on a table provided 

 for that purpose. 



Notwithstanding the increasing value of the bureau's library, it 

 was found necessary, from time to time, to make requisition on the 

 Libraiy of Congress for the loan of books, the volumes thus received 

 for temporary use numbering about 250. The volumes bound during 

 the year numbered 492. At the close of the j^ear the library con- 

 tained approximately 17,970 volumes, about 12,500 pamphlets, and 

 several thousand periodicals. Although maintained primarily as a 

 reference library for the bureau's staff, it is constantly consulted by 

 students not connected with the Smithsonian Institution and by offi- 

 cials of the executive departments and the Library of Congress. 



COLLECTIONS. 



The following collections w T ere made by members of the staff of 

 the bureau during their field researches : 



By Mr. F. W. Hodge: Twenty-two paper squeezes of early and 

 recent Spanish inscriptions on El Morro. or Inscription Rock, in 

 New Mexico. Objects of stone, bone, clay, etc., from the cemetery of 

 the ancient ruined pueblo of Kwasteyukwa on the mesa above the 

 Jemez Hot Springs, New Mexico. Ten barrels of potter and human 

 skeletal remains from the same locality. These collections were made 

 under a joint expedition conducted by the bureau and the School of 

 American Archaeology. 



By Dr. John R. Swanton : Two ball sticks, one ball, one breech- 

 cloth and belt, one tiger tail, from the Creek Indians at Coweta, Okla- 

 homa. 



By Mr. James Mooney : Four dance masks, two pairs of ball sticks, 

 two toy baskets, two wooden spoons, one ox muzzle, one stone ax. one 

 small celt, three arrowheads, from the Cherokee Indians of North 

 Carolina. 



By Mr. Francis La Flesche : Two sacred packs of the Osage 

 Indians. 



PROPERTY. 



The most valuable part of the property of the bureau consists of 

 its library, manuscripts (chiefly linguistic), and photographic nega- 

 tives. The bureau possesses also cameras, photographic machines, 

 and other ordinary apparatus and equipment for field work: sta- 

 tionery and office supplies; necessary office furniture; typewriters, 

 etc., and the undistributed stock of its publications. The amount of 

 $:U2.27 was expended for office furniture during the year, while the 

 cost of necessary books and periodicals was $39G.42. 



