46 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



The visitors to the three last-named regions also pursued other 

 branches of ethnic research, including social organization, traditions, 

 and customs ; and Dr. W. J. Hoffman was engaged in investigations 

 in gesture language and pictographs among the several Indian tribes 

 of California and Western Nevada. The highly valued researches of 

 Mr. F. H. Gushing among the Zuiii pueblos have been continued, sev- 

 eral months of the year, however, being occupied by his conducting a 

 delegation of six of those Indians to the East, a course which was im- 

 portant to his further success. 



Publications. — Several publications have been issued by the Bureau 

 during the year, as follows : 



The First Annual Keport, embracing the fiscal year 1879-'S0, the con- 

 tents being : On the evolution of language, by J. W. Powell ; Sketch of 

 the mythology of the North American Indians, by J. W. Powell ; Wy- 

 andot government, by J. W. Powell ; On limitations to the use of some 

 anthropologic data, by J. W. Powell ; a further contribution to the 

 study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians, by Dr. 

 H. C. Yarrow ; Studies in Central American picture writing, by Prof. 

 E. S. Holden ; Cessions of land by Indian tribes to the United States, 

 by 0. C. Eoyce ; Sign language among North American Indians, by 

 Col. Garrick Mallery ; Catalogue of linguistic manuscripts in tlie library 

 of the Bureau of Ethnology, by J. G. Pilling ; Illustration of the method 

 of recording Indian languages, from the manuscripts of Messrs. J. 

 O. Dorsey, A. S. Gatschet, and S. R. Riggs. 



Vol. ly. Contributions to North American Ethnology, containing: 

 Houses and house-life of the American aborigines, by Lewis H. Mor- 

 gan. 



Vol. V, Contributions to North American Ethnology, containing: 

 Observations on cufj-shaped and other lapidarian sculpture in the Old 

 World and in America, by Charles Ran; On prehistoric trephining and 

 cranial amulets, by Dr. Robert Fletcher, U. S. A. ; A study of the man- 

 uscript Troano, by Gyrus Thomas, with an introduction by Dr. D. G. 

 Brinton. 



The papers prepared for the press and in whole or part printed dur- 

 ing the year, though not issued therein, are as follows : 



To appear in the Second Annual Report : Mjths of the Iroquois, by 

 Ermiunie A. Smith ; Animal carvings from the mounds of the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, by Henrj' W. Henshaw; Navajo silversmiths, by Dr. 

 Washington Matthews, U. S. A. ; Art in shell of the ancient Ameri- 

 cans, by William H. Holmes ; Illustrated Catalogue of the collections 

 obtained from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879, by 

 James Stevenson ; Illustrated catalogue of the collections obtained 

 from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880, by James Stevenson. 



About 500 pages were put in type of Mr. James C. Filling's Biblio- 

 grai?hy of American linguistics, containing many fac-similes of titles, 



