Appendix 2. 

 REPOET ON THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 



Sir: In response to your communication dated July 1, I have the 

 honor to present the following report on the operations of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, con- 

 ducted in accordance with authority granted by the act of Congress 

 approved June 23, 1913, making appropriations for the sundry civil 

 expenses of the Government, and with a plan of operations submitted 

 by the ethnologist-in-charge and approved by the Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. The provision of the act authorizing the 

 researches of the Bureau of American Ethnology is as follows : 



American ethnology : For continuing ethnological researches among the Amer- 

 ican Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preserva- 

 tion of archaeologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase 

 of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscrip- 

 tions, $42,000. 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES. 



The systematic researches were conducted by the regular staff of 

 the bureau, consisting of nine ethnologists, including the ethnologist- 

 in-charge and several special investigators. These operations may 

 be summarized as follows: 



Mr. F. W. Hodge, ethnologist-in-charge, was occupied during most 

 of the year with the administrative affairs of the bureau. Consider- 

 able attention, however, was devoted to the preparation of the anno- 

 tated bibliography of the Pueblo Indians, which is probably more 

 extensive than that of any other group of tribes, as Pueblo written 

 history commenced in the year 1539, and the writings pertaining 

 thereto are exceedingly voluminous. The bibliography is recorded 

 on cards, the number of which is now about 1,900. The cataloguing 

 of the vast amount of manuscript material bearing on the subject 

 has been somewhat simplified by the recent publication of Bolton's 

 Guide to Materials for the History of the United States in the 

 Principal Archives of Mexico, published by the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, and Twitchell's Spanish Archives of New 

 Mexico, although without consultation of the documents themselves 

 it is not possible to give more than the title in most cases. In the 

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