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contained Lewis H. Morgan’s famous monograph on '‘Houses 
and House Life of the American Aborigines.” Early in his 
Western work Powell became interested in the native tribes. 
In the winter of 1868, while on White River, he studied lan¬ 
guage, tribal organisation, customs, and mythology of the 
Utes and from 1870 to 1873 he carried on studies among the 
Pai Utes, the Moki, etc., being adopted into one of the Moki 
clans. On his journeys during these periods he often took 
with him several of the natives for the purpose of investigating 
their myths and language. Eventually he became the highest 
authority on the Shoshonean tribes. In 1874 he was one of 
the commissioners to select and locate the Southern Pai Utes 
on a reservation in south-eastern Nevada. 
North American archaeology also claimed his interest and 
about the time of the consolidation of the Surveys Powell pro¬ 
posed the establishment of a Bureau of Ethnology to carry on 
investigations in this field as well as the ethnologic. This 
was done and the Bureau was attached to the Smithsonian 
Institution with Powell as director, an office that he held 
without salary till his resignation as head of the Geological 
Survey in 1894. After this he received a salary as chief of 
the Bureau of Ethnology in which office he remained till his 
death. The widely known extensive series of valuable volumes 
published by the Bureau, constituting a mine of information, 
attest the efficacy of his supervision. He contributed much to 
these and also wrote numerous papers on anthropological 
subjects and made many addresses. His labours as a pioneer in 
and organiser of the science of ethnology have been recognised 
by learned institutions and societies throughout the world. 
The results of his direction of the Geological Survey are seen 
in the maps, reports, bulletins, and monographs, constituting 
an imperishable monument to his ability as an organiser and 
administrator. 
He delivered many lectures and once, when he appeared on 
the platform at the University of Michigan, an incident occurred 
which illustrates his tact and his faculty for seizing means at 
hand to accomplish his end. At this time it was the habit of 
the students at public lectures to guy the speaker, even Charles 
