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burial customs of his peoi^le, as well as valuable iuforuiatiou regarding 

 their medical practices, especially sucli as relate to obstetrics. 



From Arizona Dr. Yarrow proceeded to Utah, and made an examina- 

 tion of an old rock cemetery near Farmington, finding it similar to the 

 one he discovered in 1872 near the town of Fillmore. The bodies had 

 been carried far up the side of the mountain ; cavities had been pre- 

 pared in a rock slide, and the bodies placed therein. Branches of Cot- 

 tonwood were then laid over and large bowlders piled on top. In sev- 

 eral of these graves the skeletons were in fair preservation, and were 

 removed, as well as the articles found with them. 



Through the kindness of Mr. William Young, of Grantsville, a skele- 

 ton of a Gosi-Ute, in excellent preservation, was obtained, which has 

 been presented to the Army Medical Museum. It may be stated that 

 the examination of the rock cemetery at Farmington showed that the 

 inhabitants of the eastern slope of the Wahsatch Eange, in Great Salt 

 Lake Valley, followed that mode of sepulture from this, the most north- 

 ern point visited, to below Parowan, a distance of at least 200 miles to 

 the southward, and it seems that these people occupied the valley long 

 subsequent to those living near the water courses who constructed the 

 small mounds on top of which were the rude adobe dwellings, and in 

 some instances used these huts for burial purposes. 



In the spring of 18SG Mr. James 0. Pilling made a trip to Europe in 

 the interest of his work on the Bibliography of the Languages of the 

 North American Indians, and spent many days in the library of the 

 British Museum, the Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris, and several ex- 

 tensive i>rivate libraries in England and France. The results of this 

 trip are highly satisfactory and valuable. 



Mr. Jeremiah Curtin continued to collect vocabularies and myths in 

 California. The whole number of myths obtained in California and 

 Oregon was over three hundred. The number of vocabularies was eight, 

 being the Yana, Atsugei (Hat Creek), Wasco, Mil6-hlama (Warm 

 Spring), Pai Ute, Shasta, Maidu, and Wintu. Texts were also obtained 

 in Yana, Wasco, Warm Spring, and Shasta. 



IT. OFFICE WORK. 



Prof. Cyrus Thomas was engaged during the year, except the few 

 weeks he was in the field, in the preparation of his general report, a paper 

 on the Maya Codices, and a special paper on the Burial Mounds of the 

 Northern Sections of the United- States. The latter will appear in the 

 Fifth Annual Eeport of the Bureau. 



Mrs. V. L. Thomas, in addition to her duties as clerk, has been em- 

 ployed in preparing a catalogue of the ancient works in that part of the 

 United States east of the Eocky Mountains. This catalogue, now 

 nearly complete, is intended to give the localities and character of all 



