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members of the extensive Algoiikiaii stock in tlic rej>ions west of the 

 (Jreat Lakes and those on tlie northeastern sea-board. The (iorrehitiou 

 of the pictooraphic practice in manner and extent was before inferen- 

 tially asserted, bnt no satisfactory evidence of it liad been presented 

 nntil the researches of the present year brought into direct comparison 

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

 (lolonel Mallery returned to Washington in October. 



Mr. James Mooney spent the earlier months of tlie 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 

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

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

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

 (yherokees 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 upon 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 resi)ecting some of the stocks until after obtaining the result of 

 additional field-work planned for the ensuing year. 



Colonel INIallery, after his return from the tield-work, was engaged in 

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

 ued research and correspondence on sign language and i>ictograi)hy. 



Dr. lloffman, 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 fVir recorded in the archives of 

 the liureau, and all particulars of manipulation, coloration, jwsition, 

 and other characteristics of interest, with descriptions and references 

 to authorities. 



Mr. [I. W. Henshaw was chiefly employed in a solution of i)roblems 

 relating to the geograi)hic distribution of the linguistic families of North 

 American Indians in the territory north of Mexi(!0. When not engaged 

 in tiiis work or with executive duties lu' continued the prei>aration of a 

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

 American Indians, now well advanced toward completion, the general 

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



While in general charge of that division of theofli(;e work he specially 

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

 several other linguistic sto(;ks of the Pacific slope. 



During the first fiv(^ months of frlie yv;\v Mr. A. S. (lafschet was en- 

 gaged in digesting the results of his recent trii» to Louisiana, Texas, and 



