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of the Zuiii Child is a very good bit of work. Two of the bureau 

 force have been particularly interested in pictography Colonel 

 Garrick Mallery and Dr. W. J. Hoffman. The former was fortu- 

 nately sent to the seat of the Dakota war in 1870. He there 

 found a rude and interesting native picture record, which he pub- 

 lished in 1877 under the title A Calendar of the Dakota Nation. 

 At its founding, during that same year, he was invited to a posi- 

 tion in the Bureau of Ethnology. He has continued his study of 

 picture-writing and has investigated gesture language, and by pub- 

 lication and encouraging research has added much to the knowl- 

 edge of both subjects. Through his Israelite and Indian (Vice- 

 Presidential Address before the American Association) and other 

 articles published in these pages, Colonel Mallery is already 

 known to the readers of this journal. With Colonel Mallery, Dr. 

 Hoffman has been much in- 

 terested in picture-writing, 

 but he has also written up- 

 on a wide range of subjects 

 in ethnology, archaeology, 

 and folk lore. His most im- 

 portant contribution is The 

 Grand Medicine Society of 

 the Ojibwas. W. H. Holmes 

 is an artist, and his papers 

 upon art in pottery and text- 

 ile fabrics are among the 

 most delightful in Ameri- 

 can archaeology. Mr. Frank 

 Cushing, as a village boy 

 in western New York, was 

 a hunter of Indian relics on 

 the old village sites of the 

 Iroquois ; invited to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, he 

 was sent to New Mexico to 

 study Pueblo life. The story 



of his life at Zuiii, his adoption, his initiation into mysteries, his 

 conduct of an " aboriginal pilgrimage " to the Ocean of Sunrise, 

 has been told and retold in magazine articles. At the establish- 

 ment of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Exploration, 

 in January, 1887, Mr. Cushing was placed in charge of its work 

 and conducted it for two years, first in the Salado and Gila Val- 

 leys in Arizona, and later at Zufii and its neighborhood. Two 

 years of such work brought on a serious illness, from which Mr. 

 Cushing is only now recovering. Some results of his w T ork were 

 published in the report of the meeting of the International Con- 



Dr. J. Walter Fewkes. 



