of the volumes were published under government auspices and 
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largely in the annual reports of the Bureau of American 
Ethnology of which Major J. W* Powell was the founder and the 
guiding spirit. 
The Bureau* s work extends over a period of 25 years 
but the parent Institution began the publication of archeolog- 
ical material almost from its foundation and the first number 
of its great series of contributions to knowledge was the 
Monuments of the Mississippi Valley” by Squire ond Davis, a 
work known and esteemed by Americanists everywhere* The works 
here presented comprise only the more important papers relat- 
ing to this branch issued by the Institution and form but a 
fraction of its anthropological publications, a complete list 
of which includes several hundred titles* I have the honor 
also to present a set of photographic portraits of American 
Indiana made during the past winter by the 'photographers of 
the Bureau of American Ethnology and the National Museum and 
representing members of the various delegations of the natives 
