Records Relating to the 1903 Investigation of the BAE
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
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content: Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology
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content: 2.92 Linear Feet
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.XXXX.0155, Series 8
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content: Archival materials
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content: Subseries: Correspondence
Subseries: Committee Report
Subseries: Miscellany
Subseries: Testimony
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content: Records in this series pertain to the Smithsonian Institution's 1903 investigation of BAE operations. They include correspondence; clippings; notes; financial reports; exhibits; testimonies; affidavits; and personal statements. Matters discussed in the records concern the criminal charges brought against Chief Clerk Frank M. Barnett owing to the mishandling of BAE funds; the organization and administration of the BAE under Powell's direction; the appointment of William John McGee's as BAE Ethnologist-in-Charge and the supervisory role he performed at the Bureau during Powell's final years as director; the BAE's relationship with its parent organization; the development and completion of BAE research projects; the management of BAE property; and certain personnel actions involving Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Franz Boas, Frank Hamilton Cushing, William Dinwiddie, and Jesse Walter Fewkes. Worthy of special mention is a file folder containing materials that relate to the death and funeral services of John Wesley Powell. For additional correspondence relating to Charles Barnett, see Series VI, Records Concerning Employees, this collection.