SIXTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 7 



In December 1942 Dr. Philip Drucker, assistant ethnologist, re- 

 ceived a commission in the United States Naval Keserve and was 

 granted a military furlough. Dr. Drucker had spent the preceding 

 portion of the fiscal year in preparing final reports on archeological 

 work previously conducted in Mexico by the National Geographic 

 Society-Smithsonian Institution archeological expeditions. These 

 reports, in press at the end of the fiscal year, will appear as Bulletins 

 of the Bureau. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES 



Miss Frances Densmore, a collaborator of the Bureau, continued 

 work on the study of Indian music by completing two large manu- 

 scripts — Seminole Music, and Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and 

 Zuni Pueblos. She also devoted considerable time to a study of the 

 traces of foreign influences in the music of the American Indians. 

 During a portion of the year she was engaged in writing a handbook 

 of the Smithsonian-Densmore collection of sound recordings of Ameri- 

 can Indian music for the National Archives. 



Miss Densmore presented to the Bureau a record of her field work 

 on Indian music and customs for the Bureau from 1907 to 1941, and 

 completed the bibliography of her writings on that subject. She also 

 presented the original phonograph record of a speech in the Ute 

 language by the famous Ute chief Ked Cap, made in 1916, and a 

 similar record of a speech in the Yuma language by Kacora, made in 

 1922, with accompanying information. 



In 1943 Miss Densmore completes 30 years' study of the music, 

 customs, and history of the American Indians. 



EDITORIAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS 



The editorial work of the Bureau 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-ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1941-1942. 

 12 pp. 



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

 by John R. Swanton. 332 pp., 19 pis., 5 text figs. 



Bulletin 134. The native tribes of eastern Bolivia and western Matto Orosso, 

 by Alfred Metraux. 182 pp., 5 pis., 1 text fig. 



Bulletin 135. Origin myth of Acoma and other records, by Matthew W. Stirling. 

 123 pp., 17 pis., 8 text figs. 



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



Bulletin 133. Anthropological papers, numbers 19-26: 



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

 Frances Densmore. 



