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TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1933
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Price $2.00 (Paper cover)
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, _Washington, D. C., July 15, 1931_.
SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1931.
With appreciation of your aid in the work under my charge, I am
Dr. C. G. ABBOT, _Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution_.
General Index, Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology, vols. 1-48, compiled by Biren Bonnerjea 25
The operations of the Bureau of American Ethnology during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1931, were conducted in accordance with the act of Congress approved April 19, 1930, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government, which act contains the following item:
American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, the excavation and preservation of archeologic remains under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees, the preparation of manuscripts, drawings, and illustrations, the purchase of books and periodicals, and traveling expenses, $70,280.
M. W. Stirling, chief, left Washington during the latter part of January to continue his archeological researches in Florida. On the way south he took the opportunity to investigate a number of archeological sites in several of the Southern States, notably a group of mounds which had been reported in the vicinity of High Point, N. C. and two mound sites on Pine Island in the Tennessee River in northern Alabama.
A few days were spent in the vicinity of Montgomery, Ala., examining the early historic sites being investigated there by the Alabama Anthropological Society. A large mound had been reported in the vicinity of Flomaton, Ala.; this was visited and found to be a natural formation.