SIA Timeline Parent:
SIA Timeline Event Body:
Congress appropriates $20,000 for the publication of contributions to North American Ethnology, and mandates that including archives, records, and materials relating to the Indians of North America collected by the geographical and geological survey of the Rocky Mountains be transferred to the the Bureau of Ethnology. On February 28th, the Secretary of the Interior requested that this appropriation be placed under the Smithsonian instead of the Department of the Interior. The Bureau of Ethnology, with Major John Wesley Powell as director, is established. More - https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_661.
Timeline Event Date:
Monday, March 3, 1879
Timeline Event Image:
Timeline Event Image Caption:
Major John Wesley Powell seated at his desk in the Adams Building on F Street in Washington, DC. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005, Box 187, Folder 1; Record Unit 95, Box 18, Folder 57, Neg. # 94-12600.