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Show NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE B U R E A U OF A M E R I C A N E T H N O L O GY By J. W. POWELL, Director INTRODUCTION Ethnologic researches have been conducted during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, in accordance with the act of Congress making provision " for continuing researches relating to the American Indians, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution," approved June 4, 1897. The work has been carried forward in accordance with a plan of operations submitted on June 14, 1897. The field operations of the Director and the collaborators have extended into Arizona, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Indian Territory, Maine, New Brunswick, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Ontario, and Texas, while special agents have conducted operations in Alaska, Argentina, British Columbia, California, Chile, Greenland, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Washington state. The office work has included the collection of material from Indian tribes in Arizona, Idaho, Indian Territory, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Texas. The researches in the office have dealt with material from nearly all of the states and from other portions of the American continent. The organization of the work has grown out of a classification of ethnic science based on the researches of the Bureau. XI |