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completed four chapters, treating of the cults of the Omaha, Ponka, Kansa, Osage, 

 Iowa, Oto, Missouri, aud Winnebago tribes, and half of a fifth chapter that describes 

 the cults of the Dakota and Assiniboin. When not otherwise engaged, he was occu- 

 pied in making entries on slips for the (Jegiha-English Dictionary. From September 

 to December, 1889, ho obtained from George Miller, an Omaha, who came to Wash- 

 ington to aid him, additional myths, legends, letters, folklore, and sociologic material, 

 grammatical notes and corrections of dictionary entries, besides genealogical tables 

 arranged according to the subgentes as well as the gentes of the Omaha tribe. 



During the year Mr. Albert S. Gatschet was wholly engaged in office work. He 

 finished his last draught of the ' ' Klamath Grammar," a language of southwestern Ore- 

 gon, making numerous additions, also appendices, as follows : Idioms and dialectic 

 diiierences in the language; colloquial form of the language; syntactic examples; 

 complex synonymous terms ; roots with their derivatives. The typographic work on 

 the grammar was terminated, the proofs and revises having all been read by the au- 

 thor. The last portion of the entire work, being the " ethnographic sketch of the 

 Klamath people,"' was then re-written from earlier notes while consulting the best 

 topographic aud historical materials obtainable. Mr. Gatschet also drew a map of 

 "the headwaters of the Klamath River," the home of the tribes, being on a scale 

 of 15 miles to the inch, which will appear as the frontispiece in Part I. The 

 "ethnographic sketch" is now in the hands of the printer. 



Mr. Jeremiah Curtiu was engaged from January 10 to June 30, 1890, in arranging 

 the myth material collected by him in the field and in copying vocabularies. The 

 Hupa, Ehuikan, and Wishoshkan vocabularies were finished and the Yana partly 

 done on June 30, 1890. 



The office work of Dr. W. J. Hoffman consisted in arranging the material gathered 

 by him during the preceding three field seasons and in preparing the manuscript for 

 publication, which has been completed. During the first three months of the year 

 1890 a delegation of Menomoni Indians were at Washington, District of Columbia, on 

 business connected with their tribe, and during that period Dr. Hoifman obtained 

 from them a collection of facts relating to mythology, social organization and gov- 

 ernment, the gentile system aud division of gens into phratries, together with many 

 facts relating to the Mitii'wit, or " Grand Medicine Society" as they term it. These 

 are interesting and valuable, as some portions of the ritual explain doubtful parts of 

 the Ojibwa i)hraseology, and vice versa, although the two societies differ greatly in 

 the dramatized portion of the forms of initiation. 



On his return from the field in November Mr. .James Mooney devoted his attention 

 to the elaboration of the sacred formulas already obtained. Two hundred of these 

 formulas, being about one-third of the whole number, have now been translated. In 

 each case the translation from the original manuscript in Cherokee characters is 

 given first, then a translation following the idiom and spirit of the original as closely 

 as possible, and finally an explanation of the medicine and ceremonies used aud the 

 underlying theory. About one-half of the whole number relate to medicine. The 

 others deal with love, war, self-protection, the ball play, agriculture, and life-con- 

 juring. A preliminary paper with a number of specimen formulas will appear in the 

 seventh annual report of the Bureau. The whole collection will constitute a unique 

 and interesting contribution to the aboriginal literature of America. All the words 

 occurring in the formulas thus far translated have been gloesarized, with grammatic 

 notes aud references from the original texts, making aglossary of about two thousand 

 words, a great part of which are in the archaic or sacred language. Several weeks 

 were also given to the preparation of an archseologic map of the old Cherokee 

 country from materials collected in the field and from other information in po8se8six)n 

 of the Bureau. 



During the year Mr. W. H. Holmes has been chiefly engaged in the preparation of 

 papers on the Arts of the Mound Builders, to form a part of the monograph upon the 

 Mound Buihlers, by Prof. Cyrus Thomas. Four papers are contemplated; one upon 



