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Two important sets of photographs were obtained for reference 

 purposes from other institutions (which retain the negatives and the 

 right to grant publication permission). The first is a set of 86 

 photographs of paintings of Indians by Paul Kane and a microfilm 

 copy of Kane's sketchbook, made on his trip across the continent to 

 the Pacific Northwest in 1845-48. The photographs were purchased 

 from the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, which 

 owns the original paintings. The second reference collection con- 

 sists of approximately 400 copy prints of photographs relating to the 

 Indians of the Plains made by Stanley J. Morrow in the 1870's and 

 1880's. The prints were received from the W. H. Over Museum of the 

 University of South Dakota, through the River Basin Surveys. 



In addition to photographs recently received from sources outside 

 the Bureau, a collection of some 1,000 photographic prints made in 

 the years 1880-1905 and representing about 130 Indian tribes was 

 transferred from the photographic laboratory. A number of re- 

 searchers have benefited this year from the newly available material, 

 and copy negatives are being made as required. 



Another project making available additional photographic re- 

 sources in the Bureau was begun in the past year. It was found that 

 a number of former staff members and collaborators had deposited 

 rather extensive series of snapshot and other small negatives. Most 

 of these were in labeled jackets, now deteriorating, and were without 

 prints. 



Prints were requisitioned for some 260 of James Mooney's negatives 

 of Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Navaho, and Cherokee; by the end 

 of the year about half of these had been sorted and arranged with 

 proper identification, and placed in protective vinylfilm albums. It 

 is hoped that in time similar groups of photographs by M. C. Steven- 

 son, W J McGee, W. H. Holmes, F. W. Hodge, A. E. Jenks, J. O. 

 Dorsey, and others may be processed in the same way. 



ILLUSTRATIONS 



Throughout the year work was continued by E. G. Schumacher, 

 illustrator, on drawings, charts, maps, diagrams, and sundry other 

 illustrative tasks concerning the publications and work of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, including the River Basin Surveys. He also 

 made a variety of drawings for other branches of the Institution. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 

 There were issued 1 Annual Report and 4 Bulletins, as follows : 



Seventy-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1953-1954. 

 ii+lT pp. 1955. 



