48 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



minica was found to be the same in style and materials as is de- 

 scribed by the early missionaries to the Carib; AAiiile the negroes of 

 Nevis manufacture pottery of the same form and ornament and 

 bum it in much the same way as that found in the middens of St. 

 Kitts. In working their spells, the obia men commonly sprinkle 

 stone objects with the blood of a goat, and the common people re- 

 gard petroglyphs as '" jumbies," or bugaboos. A great number of 

 folk tales of a mixed aboriginal and negro type are still recounted 

 in the cabins of the lowly, where Carib names for animals, plants, 

 and places are household words. 



On his return to Washington Dr. Fewkes undertook the preparation 

 of a report on his archeological researches in the West Indies, and 

 considerable progress therein had been made by the close of the 

 fiscal year. 



Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, was occupied during the greater 

 part of the year with the investigation of Indian population, which 

 has engaged his attention for a considerable time. This research 

 covers the whole period from the first occupancy of the country by 

 white people to the present time, and includes the entire territory from 

 the Rio Grande to the Arctic. To make possible systematic treat- 

 ment the area covered has been mapped into about 25 sections, each 

 of which constitutes approximately a single geographical and his- 

 torical unit for separate treatment, although numerous migrations 

 and removals, and the frequent formation of new combinations, neces- 

 sitate a constant overlapping of the work of the sections. Several of 

 the eastern areas have been completed and more or less progress has 

 been made with each of the others. More recently Mr. Mooney has 

 concentrated attention on Alaska and western Canada, for the Arctic 

 parts of which Mr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Dr. Walclemar 

 Jochelson have generously furnished new and valuable data. In 

 this memoir the plan is to include chapters on notable epidemics, vital 

 statistics, and race admixture, and the work is intended to appear as 

 a monograph on the subject. 



On June 18, 1913, Mr. Mooney proceeded to the Eastern Cherokee 

 Indians in North Carolina to continue his investigations of the med- 

 ical and religious ritual of that tribe, commenced a number of years 

 ago, as it was deemed Avise to finish this part of his Cherokee studies 

 as soon as practicable by reason of the changes that are so rapidly 

 taking place among this people. Mr. Mooney was still in the field 

 at the close of the fiscal year. 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, continued, both in the field and 

 at the office, his studies of the Indians formerly occupying the ter- 

 ritory of the southern States. He spent the month of November, 

 1912, with the Alabama and Koasati Indians in Polk County, Tex., 

 where he recorded 250 pages of texts in the dialects spoken by these 



