IX 

 REPORT OF THE ARCHEOLOGIST AND ETHNOLOGIST 



The activities of this section of the Museum are subdivided into 

 those of the office, the field, the museum and public service. The 

 routine work in the office consists of the care and cataloging of collec- 

 tions, answering correspondence, studying specimens and preparing 

 reports and bulletins. This work in itself is arduous and requires 

 constant effort to perform with satisfaction. Field work consists of 

 examining sites, excavating sites and in making studies of the Indians 

 still living within our borders. From the living Indians we obtain 

 specimens of their native arts and material that illustrates their 

 ceremonies and industrial activities, all aboriginal in origin and 

 nature. Museum work is that of caring for the collections, preparing 

 new exhibitions, and in ' adding to our store of archeological and 

 ethnological material. By public service we mean the information 

 and suggestions that we constantly are supplying to federal and 

 state departments, to organizations and specialists and to individuals. 

 Under special headings in this report the nature of some of this public 

 service is briefly described. 



We have from time to time repDrted increasing interest of the 

 public in this section of the Museum, and we are glad to restate this 

 fact. During the year just passed this interest has so greatly en- 

 larged that we feel that the section has not only the support of those 

 who think along purely scientific lines but that of the general public-. 

 This is in keeping with the policy of the Museum to make each divi- 

 sion and section of direct as well as indirect benefit to the people of 

 the State. 



Publications. During the year just passed we have completed 

 the manuscript copy of " The Archeological History of New York." 

 To complete this work it has been necessary to make a reexamination 

 of many parts of the State and to check and to verify reports of the 

 several thousand sites of aboriginal occupation within this State. 

 All the museums of the State were visited and the collections studied. 

 Through these studies we have not only been able to prepare maps of 

 the various sites, individually and by counties, but to sift the evi- 

 dences of occupation. The " ArchcDlogical History of New York " 

 will contain fairly full accounts of the various cultures that we have 



[99] 



4 



