50 KEPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



tiiiicsaiHl beliefs of the paj^iiii Ircxiiiois wen; recorded; plant and auiinal names were 

 foUt'rtt'd ; many reliKi<in« ii'i'l ^eiitilc songs were secured, and accounts of the prin- 

 cipal Iroqnoian " medicines" iu the vernacular were obtained. A Wyandot vocabu- 

 lary was also recorded. 



Mrs. T. E. Stevenson left Washington in March, 18'10, to study the Sia, Jemez, and 

 Znni Indians. She made Sia her first point of investigation, and found so much of 

 ethnologic interest in this Pueblo that siie continued her work there to the end of the 

 fiscal year engaged in making a vocabulary and studying the habits, cnstoms, mythol- 

 ogy, and medicine practices of these people. She has been admitted to the cere- 

 monials of the secret societies and has made detailed accounts of them, the altars 

 being photographed by Miss M. S. Clark, who accompanied her. Her investigations 

 so far have resulted iu a clear exposition of the religion of the people. 



OFFICE WORK. 



The Director was engaged during the year, ^Yheu his other duties would permit, in 

 the preparation of a work on the. characteristics of Indian languages. 



Col. Garrick Mallery, U. S. Army, was occupied in continued study of sign language 

 and pictography with the collection and collation of additional material obtained by 

 personal investigation, by correspondence, and by the examination of authorities. 

 This work was performed with special reference to the preparation for early publica- 

 tion of a nu)nograph on each of those subjects, that on pictography to be first pre- 

 sented. The re-arrangement and revision of material already published in the pre- 

 liminary pajiers on the sign language and on the pictographs of the North American 

 Indians which respectively appeared iu the first and fourth annual reports of this 

 Bureau, and the insertion of matter obtained later by exploration and research, have 

 been conjoined with discussion and comparison. By this treatment it is hoped that 

 the mouograi)hs on sign language and pictography, having as their test the attain- 

 ments of the North American Indians in those directions, may contribute to the 

 understanding of similar exhibitions of evanescent and durable thought-writing, 

 whether still employed iu other parts of the world or now only found iu records of 

 material remains. 



During the fiscal year Mr. H. W. Heushaw was engaged, in addition to his admin- 

 istrative duties, in assisting the Director in the final preparation of the linguistic 

 map of North America north of Mexico, and the accompanying report, which is now 

 completed and in the bauds of the printer. He also began the final revision for the 

 printer of his dictionary of Indiau tribal names. 



Rev. J. Owen Dorsey completed his editorial work iu connection with the pnblica- 

 tion of Riggs' Dakota-English Dictionary. He wrote articles on the following sub- 

 jects: Measures and valning ; Tiie Dha-du-ghe Society of the Ponka tribe ; Omaha 

 dwellings, fniniture, and implements; Omaha clothiug and personal ornaments; 

 Ponka and Omaha songs; The places of gentes in Siouan camping circles; Winne- 

 bago folklore notes; Teton folklore; Omaha folklore; The gentile system of the 

 Siletz tribes; and a Dakota's account of the sun-dance. He revised some of his 

 Omaha and Ponka genealogical tables and began the arrangement of Kansa tables or 

 a similar character. He continued the elaboratiou of his monograph on Indian per- 

 sonal names, and completed the following lists in which the Indian uanies precede 

 their English meanings: Winnebago, 383 names; Iowa, Oto, and Missouri, 5-iO ; 

 Kwapa, 15; and K;iusa, ()04. 



Dr. Dorsey finished the preparation of his texts for Contributions to North Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, Vol. G, The (jJegiha Laugnage. Part ir. Additional myths, stories, 

 and letters, and corrected proof for the volume as far as page G'A. He prepared a 

 manuscript of other Omaha ami Ponka letters, to be published as a bulletin. He 

 benjan an article entitled "A study of Siouan cults," for which over forty colored 

 illustrations were prepared by Indians, under his direction ; and of this article he 



