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Show XX BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY fictile ware, including the adaptation of mythologic, animal, bird and feather, insect, and reptilian figures. Many of these are so highly conventionized that they would have been practically uninterpretable without the knowledge of Tusayan mythologic and sociologic concepts which Dr Fewkes fortunately possesses, and by means of which he has been enabled to make substantial contributions to knowledge of the development of artistic concepts. The results of his work are incorporated in two memoirs for publication, respectively, in the seventeenth and twentieth annual reports. In connection with other researches, and with administrative duties in the office as Ethnologist in Charge, Mr W J McGee has made inquiries from delegations of Indians visiting Washington concerning the symbolic use of feathers, especially in connection with headdresses. It is well known to students that the use of feathiers, which at first sight would seem to be decorative merely, is essentially symbolic; but the meanings of the symbols have not been ascertained hitherto, save casually and among a few tribes. During the year the feather symbolism of the Ponka and Ojibwa tribes has been discovered and recorded with tolerable completeness. WORK IN TECHNOLOGY Arts and industries are correlative factors in human progress, and the lines of conceptual development traced through the study of art motives elucidate the growth of industrial devices. Accordingly., the work of the collaborators in connection with art motives has contributed both directly and indirectly to aboriginal technology. During the year special attention was given to lines of technical development, as indicated in previous reports, and to the acquisition of material for study and preservation in the Museum. Especially valuable is the Steiner collection, from the mounds of Etowah valley, Georgia. It comprises 3,215 specimens of stone implements, earthenware, and symbolic and decorative objects of copper, shell, and stone. The Indians of this district, builders of the great Etowah mound and other monuments, were peculiarly fertile in artistic and industrial devices. In this region the progressive tribes of the Siouan stock, the vigorous Cherokee, one or |