Clay MacCauley

In 1881, Reverend Clay MacCauley was asked by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology to survey the Seminole Indians of Florida. MacCauley, an anthropologist without formal training in ethnology, spent three months in South Florida. When the report was published in 1887, it was hailed by John Wesley Powell, director of the bureau, as "the first ethnologic exploration of the Seminoles of Florida ever attempted."