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nology, with its band of workers each in some special line. 

 Work is actively conducted both in the field and office, and the 

 results are published as papers in the annual reports, as bul- 

 letins, or as monographs. Major Powell himself is our best au- 

 thority on the Utes. For years he has been mainly interested in 

 linguistics, and his Introduction to the Study of Indian Lan- 

 guages has led to the gathering of many vocabularies. The mass 

 of linguistic material in the possession of the bureau is almost 

 incredible. In his last annual report Major Powell presents a 

 paper upon the Linguistic Families North of Mexico. This paper 



is accompanied by a map 

 showing the conclusions he 

 reaches. The best-known 

 linguist in the employ of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology 

 is Mr. Albert S. Gatschet, 

 whose studies are most thor- 

 ough and critical. Mr. Gat- 

 schet is by birth a Swiss, 

 and has devoted his time 

 since 1875 to the study of an- 

 thropology and the Ameri- 

 can races and languages. Of 

 his more important works, 

 the earliest is the Migration 

 Legend of the Creeks, in 

 two octavo volumes ; the 

 original Creek text, transla- 

 tion, vocabulary, and criti- 

 cal notes upon the language 

 and ethnology of this im- 

 portant tribe compose the 

 work. Very recently the Government has published his great 

 work upon The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon, in two 

 quarto parts. Mr. H. W. Henshaw, the general assistant in the 

 bureau, has also collected much linguistic material, especially 

 in California. One of the most complete studies, the results of 

 which the bureau is printing, is that of Rev. J. Owen Dorsey 

 among the Omahas. Mr. Dorsey has already published exten- 

 sively upon the language and the sociology of this people, but 

 he has still much material. Mr. James Mooney has made a special 

 study during three field seasons of the Cherokees of the North 

 Carolina Mountains, and his report upon their ceremonials has 

 just appeared. One of the brightest workers of the bureau is 

 Mrs. Stevenson, whose husband was one of the most indefatigable 

 collectors in the Pueblo regions. Mrs. Stevenson's Religious Life 



Thomas Wil.son. 



