Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Volume 35, Part 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921
"List of publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology (comp. by Frederick Webb Hodge)":
 

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Page 30 - ... same general plan has been followed, there will be much that is new, both in subject matter and in style of illustration. During the year work on the Handbook of Aboriginal Remains East of the Mississippi was continued by Mr. DI Bushnell, jr., under a small allotment from the bureau, and approximately 90,300 words of manuscript were recorded on cards geographically arranged. The entire amount of manuscript now completed is about 321,000 words, and the bibliography thus far includes 306 titles....
Page 37 - ... half years had been installed in the eastern galleries of the hall mentioned, the books therein were removed in February to the gallery and main floor of the western end of the hall and the eastern galleries were demolished. Although this work of removal occupied two weeks, it was done without confusion and practically without cessation of the library's activities. The new stacks were in process of erection before the close of the fiscal year. COLLECTIONS. The following collections were acquired...
Page 11 - For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, Including the excavation and preservation of archseologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, Including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, Including payment in advance for subscriptions, $42,000.
Page 20 - ... of all but the last. At the same time, with the valued assistance of Mr. GW Grayson, of Eufaula, Dr. Swanton gathered further ethnological information from some of the old people, and continued this work after the ceremonies ceased. Somewhat later he visited the small body of Indians in Seminole County who still retain a speaking knowledge of Hitchiti, and added about 40 pages of text to that previously obtained, besides correcting a portion of Gatschet's Hitchiti vocabulary. He made an arrangement...
Page 30 - School. This research completed the field work for the proposed volume of Sioux music, the material for which, subsequently prepared for publication, consists of 323 pages of manuscript, 98 musical transcriptions of songs, 20 technical analyses of songs, and 33 original illustrations. The practical use which musical composers are making of the results of Miss Densmore's studies is very gratifying. Mr. Carl Busch has adapted for orchestral purposes four of the songs rendered by Miss Densmore and published...
Page 35 - The manuscript and illustrations of this memoir were submitted to the Public Printer the latter part of April. Engraver's proof of the illustrations, with the exception of a few pieces of color work, have been received and approved. Owing to the .heavy pressure of public business, the Printing Office had been unable to furnish proof of the letterpress by the close of the year. Bulletin 58, "List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Page 26 - ... Oregon; the Kutenai, of Montana; and the Chukchee. The Takelma sketch was published in advance in separate form in 1:912. During the present year the printing of the sketch of the Coos, by Leo J. Frachtenberg, which forms pages 297-429 of part 2, was finished. The manuscript of the Siuslaw, also by Dr. Frachtenberg, was completed and revised, and, except for a small part, is in galley form. The Chukchee sketch likewise has been set up in galleys and revised, and new material on the dialects of...
Page 18 - ... an interesting insight into the ancient culture of the Pueblo region to the north and in the Gila Valley to the west. It is Mexican in type, and some of the fragments are practically identical in form and ornamentation with the beautiful pottery from Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. During the year...
Page 35 - ... and 263 folios of music, was approved for publication in June, too late for inclusion by the Printing Office under the bureau's allotment for this fiscal year. As during the last few years, the correspondence arising from the large demand for the publications of the bureau has been in the immediate charge of Miss Helen Munroe and Mr. EL Springer, of the Smithsonian Institution, assisted during part of the year by Mr. Thomas F. Clark, jr., and later by Mr. William A. Humphrey. The distribution...
Page 762 - ... of dried salalberry cakes and oil. . . . After the invitation ... all the tribes go to bed early ; for they do not know what the chief is planning, and they are afraid of the feast of salal-berry cakes and oil, because it makes one feel squeamish. Therefore all the chiefs and common people [bEgwil] are afraid of it; but there is no way of not going to the feast, because they would be laughed at by the numaym of the host (Boas 1921 : 768-770). The guests, including" chiefs and the men of their...

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