FIFTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT \) 



toms or ceremonies, which have not been sung for many years, are 

 being forgotten and will soon disappear. 



Miss Densmore also obtained from Benjamin Parker a description 

 and a model of an old type of drum. In former times the cylinder 

 of this drum was a charred log, preferably of oak or elm. The 

 lower head was of hide from the lower part of a buffalo's neck, and 

 the upper head, which was struck, was made of deer hide or the hide 

 from a hindquarter of an elk. These heads were laced together 

 with buffalo thongs and tightened with bits of wood in the lacing, 

 a custom not observed previously among the Indians. 



During the year Miss Densmore arranged in final order 245 songs 

 to accompany her manuscript on Seminole music and revised por- 

 tions of the text to conform to this arrangement of the material. 



In December 1941 Miss Densmore was appointed as consultant at 

 The National Archives for work in connection with the Smithso- 

 nian-Densmore collection of sound recordings of American Indian 

 music, and during the ensuing months she was engaged in planning 

 the organization of the collection. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



The editorial work of the Bureau has continued during the year 

 under the immediate direction of the editor, M. Helen Palmer. 

 There were issued one Annual Keport and three Bulletins, as follows : 



Fifty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1940-1941. 

 13 pp. 



Bulletin 129. An arclieological survey of Pickwick Basin in the adjacent 

 portions of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, by William S. 

 Webb and David L. DeJarnette. With additions by Walter B. Jones, J. P. E. 

 Morrison, Marshall T. Nevrman and Charles E. Snow, and William G. Haag. 

 536 pp., 316 pis., 99 text figs. 



Bulletiin 130. Arclieological investigations at Buena Vista Lake, Kern 

 County, California, by Waldo R. Wedel. With appendix, Skeletal remains from 

 the Buena Vista sites, California, by T. D. Stewart. 194 pp., 57 pis., 19 text 

 figs. 



Bulletin 131. Peachtree Mound and village site, Cherokee County, North Caro- 

 lina, by Frank M. Setzler and Jesse D. Jennings. With appendix, Skeletal remains 

 from the Peachtree Site, North Carolina, by T. D. Stewart. 103 pp., 50 pis., 

 12 text figs. 



The following Bulletins were in press at the close of the fiscal year : 



Bulletin 132. Source material on the history and ethnology of the Caddo 

 Indians, by John R. Swanton. 



Bulletin 183. Anthropological papers, numbers 19-26 : 



No. 19. A search for songs among the Chitimacha Indians in Louisiana, 



by Frances Densmore. 

 No. 20. Archeological survey on the northern Northwest Coast, by Philip 

 Drucker, 



