Oct., 1903. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



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groups are well under way, and are not only of unusual interest, but 

 have been constructed with the utmost thoroughness. The Curator 

 of the department has continued his investigations among the 

 Arapaho, Pawnee, and Wichita, and has extended them to include 

 the Arikara — the work among the Pawnee and Arikara being carried , 

 on during the present year by means of an especial grant made by 

 the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He has made extensive 

 additions to the Arapaho collection; small, but important, additions 

 to the Pawnee collection ; and has made a good beginning toward a 

 collection illustrative of the Arikara. Mr. H. R. Voth, through the 

 generosity of Mr. Stanley McCormick, has been enabled to continue 

 his studies among the Hopi of Arizona, the greater portion of his time 

 being spent in the preparation or revision among the Indians them- 

 selves, of memoirs bearing upon Hopi ceremoniology. The plan of 

 co-operative work has been continued during the present year with the 

 U. S. Bureau of Ethnology, and Mr. James Mooney of that institution 

 has been continuing his investigations among the Cheyenne for the 

 department, especially investigating the heraldry of that tribe. This 

 work is well advanced and is proving most interesting. Mr. Alleyne 

 Ireland reports from Rangoon that he has shipped over fourteen 

 cases of ethnic material obtained in British North Borneo and 

 Burmah. A small, but particularly interesting, collection of material 

 was also obtained by Mr. Ireland in Sarawak. In the interests of the 

 Department of Geology, Assistant Curator Nichols, during the months 

 of October and November, made an extended trip through the mining 

 districts of the southern Appalachians, principally in the mountainous 

 parts of North Carolina and Georgia. The well-known copper mines 

 of Ducktown, Tennessee, were visited, and a full series of the copper 

 ores, rocks, and accessory minerals there occurring were collected. 

 Representative specimens of the eastern Tennessee barytes, iron, and 

 zinc ores were also secured. In North Carolina the iron mines of 

 Cranberry yielded a collection of iron ores with accessory rocks and 

 minerals. Mitchell and Yaney counties, of North Carolina, in the 

 heart of the Appalachian Mountains, were visited for mica, gem 

 minerals, and minerals of rare earths. In these counties, besides mica 

 and the ordinary accessory minerals, such as garnet, beryl, etc., 

 aqua-marine, emerald, and transparent oligloclase were secured; also 

 pitch-blende, gummite, allanite, and other minerals of the rare earths. 

 In southern North Carolina and northern Georgia, corundum from 

 various localities was collected, together with abrasive garnet, asbes- 

 tos, cyanite, and other minerals. From many localities in Georgia, 

 specimens of talc and kaolin, as well as ores of iron, gold, copper. 



