56 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913, 



" accompanying paper '' of the Twenty-ninth Annual Report, now 

 in press. Three bulletins, namely, (No. 54) The Physiography of 

 the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, in Relation to Pueblo Culture, 

 by Edgar L. Hewett, Junius Henderson, and W. W. Robbins; (No. 

 55) The Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians, by Barbara W. Freire- 

 Marreco, W. W. Robbins, and J. P. Harrington; and (No. 56) The 

 Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians, by Junius Henderson and J. P. 

 Harrington, were also presented as a part of the results of the joint 

 expeditions and are either published or in process of printing. Mr, 

 Harrington also made progress in the preparation of his report 

 on the Mohave Indians, and Miss Freire-Marreco is expected to 

 submit shortly an extended paper on the Yavapai tribe. There re- 

 mains to be mentioned in this connection another memoir, namely, 

 An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs, by Sylvanus 

 G. Morley; while not a direct product of the joint work of the 

 bureau and the school, this is in a measure an outgrowth of it. The 

 manuscript, together with the accompanying illustrations, has been 

 submitted to the bureau, but is now temporarily in the author's hands 

 for slight revision. 



Since the publication of the Handbook of American Indians, 

 through which additional popular interest in our aborigines has been 

 aroused, it has been the desire to make a beginning toward the prepa- 

 ration of a series of handbooks devoted to the Indians of the re- 

 spective States. The opportunity was fortunately presented toward 

 the close of the fiscal year, when the bureau was enabled to enlist the 

 aid of Dr. A. L. Kroeber, of the University of California, who has 

 kindly consented to undertake the preparation of the initial volume 

 of the series, to be devoted to the Indians of California. It is planned 

 to present the material in each volume in as popular a form as prac- 

 ticable, in order that it may be made of the greatest use to schools, 

 and it is hoped that the means may be soon available to make pos- 

 sible the extension of the series to other States. 



Under a small allotment from the bureau, Mr. James Murie con- 

 tinued his studies of Pawnee ceremonies. He devoted special atten- 

 tion to the medicine rites, and on June 13, 1913, submitted a descrip- 

 tion of the ritual pertaining to the " Purification of the Buffalo 

 Skull ". 



The transcription of the manuscript French-Miami Dictionary in 

 the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, R. I., to which at- 

 tention has been directed in previous reports, was finished by Miss 

 Margaret Bingham Stillwell, who submitted the last pages of the 

 vocabulary (which number 1,120 in all) early in January, 1913. 

 The bureau is under obligations to Mr. George Parker Winship, 

 librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, for his generous co- 

 operation in placing this valued document at the disposal of the 



