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in the preparation of a general map of the United States, showing the 

 area of the mounds and the relative frequency of their occurrence. He 

 has since assisted Professor Thomas in the preparation of the monograph 

 upon the inclosures. 



Mr. Victor Mindeleff, assisted by Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff, has been 

 engaged in preparing for publication a " Study of Pueblo Architecture" 

 as illustrated in the provinces of Tusayan and Cibola, material for which 

 he has been engaged in collecting for a number of years. This report 

 is now completed, and will appear in the Seventh Annual Report of 

 the Bureau. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. Cosmos Mindeleff and the 

 force of the modelling room completed the bureau exhibit for the Cin- 

 cinnati Exposition, and during the early part of the year Mr. Mindeleff 

 was at Cincinnati in charge of the same. Owing to restricted space 

 the exhibit was limited to the Pueblo culture group, but this was illus- 

 trated as fully as the time would permit. The exhibit covered about 

 1,200 feet of floor space as well as a large amount of wall space, and 

 consisted of models of pueblo and cliff ruins ; models of inhabited 

 pueblos, ancient and modern pottery, examples of weaving, basketry 

 etc., a representative series of implements of war, the chase, agriculture, 

 and the household, manikins illustrating costumes, and a series of 

 large photographs illustrative of aboriginal architecture of the pueblo 

 region, and of many phases of pueblo life. Upon Mr. Mindeleff's re- 

 turn from Cincinnati he resumed assistance to Mr. Victor Mindeleff 

 upon a report on pueblo architecture, and the close of the fiscal year 

 saw the two chapters which had been assigned him completed. They 

 consist of a review of the literature on the pueblo region and a sum- 

 mary of the traditions of the Tusayan group from material collected by 

 Mr. A. M. Stephen. Work was also continued on the duplicate series 

 of models, and twelve were advanced to various stages of completion. 

 Some time was devoted to repairing original models which had been 

 exhibited at Cincinnati and other expositions, and also to experiments 

 in casting in paper, in order to find a suitable paper for use in large 

 models. The experiments were successful. 



Mr. J. K. Hillers has continued the collection of photographs of prom- 

 inent Indians, in both full-face and profile, by which method all the fa- 

 cial characteristics are exhibited to the best advantage. In nearly every 

 instance a record has been preserved of the sitter's status in the tribe? 

 the age, biographic notes of interest, and in case of mixed bloods the 

 degree of intermixture of blood. The total number of photographs ob- 

 tained during the year is 27, distributed among the following tribes, 

 viz: Sac and Fox, 5; Dakota, 6; Omaha, 6, and mixed-bloods (Creeks), 

 10. 



