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members of the extensive Algoiikian stock in the regions west of the 

 Great Lakes and those on the nortlieastern sea-board. The correhition 

 of tlie pictograpliic practice in manner and extent was before inferen- 

 tially asserted, but no satisfactory evidence of it had been presented 

 until the researches of the present year brouglit into direct comparison 

 the pictography of the Ojibwa with that of the Micmacs and Abnaki. 

 Colonel Mallery returned to Washington in October. 



Mr. James Mooney spent the earlier months of the fiscal year in the 

 examination of the northern division of Cherokees with reference to the 

 dialectic difference of vocabulary between them and the main body of 

 the same tribe in the Indian Territory from which they have long been 

 separated, and also, in studying for the same comparison their reli- 

 gions practices, traditions, social customs, and arts. The northern 

 Cherokees are found to have been less affected by civilization than 

 those of the south, and they can therefore be studied with manifest 

 advantage. Mr. Mooney procured a large amount of valuable material 

 from them. 



OFFICE WORK. 



Director Powell was frequently occupied during the year in the ex- 

 amination of undetermined problems pertaining to his work ui)on the 

 classification of the Indian linguistic stocks, the scope of which has been 

 explained in his former reports. It was found necessary to defer decis- 

 ion respecting some of the stocks until after obtaining the result of 

 additional field-work planned for the ensuing year. 



Colonel Mallery, after his return from the field-work, was engaged in 

 study of important and novel points developed thereby, and in contin- 

 ued research and correspondence on sign language and pictograi)hy. 



Dr. Iloff'man, while assisting in the same work, prepared an atlas and 

 topograhic chart showing all the petrogylphs within the limits of the 

 United States and adjacent countries so far recorded in the archives of 

 the Bureau, and all i)articulars of manipulation, coloration, position, 

 and other characteristics of interest, with descriptions and references 

 to authorities. 



Mr. U. W. Ilenshaw was chiefly employed in a solution ot probk^ns 

 relating to the geographic distribution of the linguistic families of North 

 American Indians in the territory north of Me.\i(!0. When not engaged 

 in this work or with execnitive duties he continued the prei)aration of a 

 dictionary in the nature of a synonomy of tribal names of the North 

 American Iiulians, now well advancx'd toward (;ompletion, the gen«n'al 

 character and object of which have been set forth in a former report. 



While in general charge of that division of the office work he specially 

 attended to the Sahaptinian, Salishan, Chemakuman, Chinookan, and 

 several other linguistic st()(;ks of the Pacific slope. 



During the first five months of tlie year Mr. A. S. Gatschet was en- 

 gaged in digesting the residtsof his recent trii) to Louisiana, Texas, and 



