Report of the President. 2 1 



A memoir on the decorative art of the Huichol, by Dr. 

 Carl Lumholtz, was also published during the past year. 



From the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Mr. Waldemar 

 Bogoras's memoir on the Chukchee has been printed and pub- 

 lished by E. J. Brill, Lmt. 



Dr. John R. Swanton's description of the Haida of Queen 

 Charlotte Islands has also been issued. 



At the present time the first part of Mr. Waldemar Jochel- 

 son's description of the Koryak, containing the religion and 

 myths of the tribe, is in press. 



The last part of the Kwakiutl Texts, by F. Boas and G. 

 Hunt, is also in press. 



Mr. .Bogoras has handed in his manuscript on the religion 

 of the Chukchee. 



Dr. John R. Swanton has handed in his volume of Haida 

 Texts. 



In the summer Dr. Boas, as a representative of the Museum, 

 attended the Congress of Americanists held in Stuttgart. 



The utilization of the Museum collections for purposes of 

 university instruction has continued. The same courses that 

 are mentioned in the Annual Report of 1903 were given dur- 

 ing the present year, and many students carried on their work 

 in the Museum. 



Department of Archaeology. — -The department has re- 

 ceived several valuable accessions during the year by purchase 

 and gift, noteworthy among which is a collection from the 

 prehistoric pueblo ruins of Socorro, New Mexico, the gift of 

 Mrs. Constance S. Mead and family. Five funeral urns from 

 Oaxaca, presented by Mrs. Robert W. De Forest, form an 

 important addition to our exhibit of Zapotecan ceramics. 

 We acquired 366 specimens by the purchase of the Bauer col- 

 lection, chiefly illustrative of the Matlaltzincan culture, which 

 was not represented in the Mexican collections. The purchase 

 of a large collection of shell implements from the Barbados 

 materially added to our West Indian collection. 



From the Department of Preparation and Installation we 

 received casts of models of the earthwork known as Fort 



