Excerpt from Thirtieth Annual Report of Bureau of American Ethnology: To the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1908 1909
Regular force: Matilda Coxe Stevenson, the Pueblo tribes; James Mooney, the Great Plains tribes; J. N. B. Hewitt, the Iroquoian tribes; J. R. Swanton, the Southern tribes; F. W. Hodge, literary researches for the Handbook of the Indians; J. W. Fewkes, archeology of Southwestern tribes; W. H. Holmes, technology of the tribes; Cyrus Thomas, bibliography of Hawaii.
Collaborators: Franz Boas and eight assistants, the languages of the tribes; Ales IlrdliCka, the physical anthropology of the tribes; Frances Densmore, ceremony and songs of the Ojibwa tribes; J. P. Dunn, linguistics of the Algonquian tribes of the Middle West; N. B. Emerson, the Ilawaiians; H. M. Ballou, the Hnwaiians; II. E. Bolton, the tribes of Texas; J. P. Reagan, Northwest Coast tribes; Alice C. Fletcher, the Omaha tribe; Francis La Flesche, the Omaha tribe; W. R. Gerard, etymology of Indian names.
(B) The summarizing of the materials now available relating to the tribes was initiated by the preparation of the Handbook of the Indians, which assumes to cover the whole ground in brief articles arranged in alphabetical order. Its preparation has led to a clearer understanding of the work done and to be done, and the researches now in hand contemplate the preparation of a series of handbooks, each to be devoted to a full presentation of a single branch of the subject, as follows:
(o) Handbook of the Tribes: History, distribution, settlements, population, etc., of each stock, tribe, and minor group. Preliminary assemblage of the data is embraced in the present Handbook of American Indians, of which Part 1 is published and Part 2 almost ready.
(6) Handbook of Languages: Part 1 now in press. Part 2 in preparation. As several hundred languages are to be considered, a number of yearn will be required to complete the work.
(c) Handbook of Race History: Physical and mental characters, physiology, pathology, medicine, etc. Researches in hand, but requiring extensive additional investigation.
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