Congress Directs All Federal Ethnology Collections to SI

 
 

Congress Directs All Federal Ethnology Collections to SI

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Year: 
1879
Month: 
march
Day: 
3
Date: 
Mon, 1879-03-03
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U.S. Congress appropriates $20,000 for the publication of contributions to North American Ethnology, provided that "all the archives, records, and materials relating to the Indians of North America, collected by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, shall be turned over to the Smithsonian Institution, that the work may be completed and prepared for publication under its direction."  The Bureau of Ethnology, with Major John Wesley Powell as its head, is established to perform this work.