FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



M. W. Stirling, Chief 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report on the field 

 researches, office work, and other operations of the Bureau of Ameri- 

 can Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1934, conducted 

 in accordance with the act of Congress approved June 16, 1933. The 

 act referred to contains the following item: 



American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the Ameri- 

 can Indians and the natives of Hawaii, the excavation and preservation of 

 archeologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including 

 necessary employees, the preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, 

 the purchase of books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $50,000,00. 



SYSTEMATIC RESEARCHES 



M. W. Stirling, Chief, devoted the early part of the year to office 

 routine and to the preparation of manuscript relating to past re- 

 searches. When the Civil Works Administration began to expand 

 its relief program, opportunity was taken to give work to a number of 

 especially equipped unemployed in the translation of manuscript and 

 rare printed material in foreign' languages and to the typing and 

 copying of a considerable quantity of rare manuscript material in the 

 archives of the Bureau which has been in danger of disintegrating 

 because of age. 



On December 11, 1933, Mr. Stirling left Washington for Florida to 

 supervise archeological projects which he had proposed in connection 

 with the Federal Civil Works Administration relief program. After 

 conference with Civil Works Administration officials at Tallahassee 

 and Jacksonville, work was conducted in the excavation of mounds 

 and habitation sites in the vicinity of the south fork of the Little 

 Manatee Kiver near Bradenton, Fla., and on Perico Island near the 

 mouth of the Manatee River. A sand burial mound was excavated 

 at Englewood in the southern part of Sarasota County. On the 

 eastern coast of Florida, work was conducted on Canaveral Island, 



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