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fquivalents ill other >Sioiiau liin<]ciuigos, some ln-iiii; iiicnliciil in sduiul with th<^ cor- 

 rcspondiiii;- words in I)al<ota. Wiiiiichago, etc. 'I'iic Hiloxi has ihdic chissiliors tliaii 

 arc I'oMiid in th«' othei- hiiii;iia<;<'s of lliis lainil\ . and whilr it, uses ad\<'r)ts and coii- 

 jiinctious, it often e\|ii-esses a suei'ession of actions liy mere juxtaposition of two, 

 three, or more \crbs. In llie ]ianrity of moiled i)reti\es it may he cuniitared witli 

 tlie Ilidatsa aud 'I'ntelo. and in tlie use of d'"' and t'^' it may he (hissed with tlie 

 Kwajiai and IIi(hitsa. The information now L;ained peimits a tahulai- eompai'ison of 

 the Hiloxi with the Hi(hitsa, Wiiinehago, ('ata\\l>a, and i'ntelo. thos<> ti\-e heinii '•'- 

 garded as th<! archaic, hnignages of the Sionan family. 



Mr. Alhert S. (iaischcl, ha\'ing met witli little success in his ]>re\ious attempt, in 

 1X81, to study the Wi(diita, language in the lield, continued to watidi for better o])]»or- 

 tunities. lu 1892 he int^t twelve young men of that triix' in tin' ilducational Home 

 (hranch of the TJncolu Institute) at riiiiadeli)liia. and selected four of the hrightest 

 of their nuniher, who seemeil to he tlie most promising tlirongh I heir ad\ anced knowl- 

 edge of English. With their hel]) he gathered about three thousand terms cd' \\'i('h- 

 ita.A\hich isaCaddoan dialect, also a lafge nundicr of ])aradigms, sentences, and a, 

 few mythological texts. A thorough inti-ridiangeability of the cDnsonanIs makes (he 

 study peculiarly difficult. 



Maria.Vntonia, a young Costa Rica wouuin residing in I'hiladelpliia, was (| nest ion etl 

 concerning what she remembered of her nati\e tongue, the (Juatuso. About one 

 lluudr(^d and twenty vocahles were recorded as the result oi' th(> in(|uiry. Mr. 

 (iatsclu't's field work extended from the beginning of Mai li to the b(\ginning of 

 .luiic. lS<t2. 



OFFICK WOUK. 



The l')irect()r took s])ccial pains in the revision and correction of iiis work on tli(> 

 " Indian Linguistic Famili(\s of America iu>rtli of Mexico," as it ])assed through the 

 ]ircss. The scope aud importance of this linguistic classification has hetV)re lieeu 

 ex]daiue«l. and the pajx'r forms ]iart of the ,S(i\'enth Annual K'eport of the liureau, 

 iniw issued. 



Col. (iarriek Mallery, II. »S. Army, was chieliy occu])ied in writing in linal form, 

 for ])uhlication in the Tenth Annual Report of the bureau, a comi)rchensive paper 

 on the '• ricture Writ ing of the American Indians,'' whi<h presents tlu^ result of 

 scNcial years of personal exiiloration and study of all accessible material on that 

 subjecf. At the close of the year, the nuinuscriid and the drawings for the large 

 number of necessary illustrations liad been transmitted througli the Secretary of 

 t he Smithsonian Institution to the I'ublic rrinter. C!ol. MalhMv was also, during 

 the greater ])art of the year, charged with admiuistrativi^ duties and witli the exe- 

 cution of a variety of special works under tlie instructions of the Director. 



.Mr. H. W. Honshaw, in addition to his usual administrativtsdutit^s, when not in the 

 litdil as before mentioned, was employi^il in jtreparing the cxhilut of the IJureau for 

 I lie Woi Id's Columbian Exj)osi(i()u at Chicago and also in tin; jucpai'ation of the 

 forthcoming \olume on •■ Tribal Synonymy," tlm purport aiul utility of which have 

 been explaiiuid in form(!r reports, lu tiiis woik ^Ir. Htmsluiw has had t he assistance 

 of Mr. F. Webb Hodgt^, who has devotid sjiecial attention to the I'iman. Vuman, and 

 the several Pueblo linguistic stocks. 



Tiie office work <d" Mr. W. H. Holmes consisted in the couniJi'tion of papers upon 

 the pottery and shollwork of the abi)rigines of the United Statcss. .\ tliiid jiapcr 

 was written upon the textih? fabrics otjtaiiu'd fruin the niound r<'gion, and a fourth 

 upon the stono implements of the lidi'-water country. A llftli jiaper iijion the gen- 

 eral arclueology of the region was commcni-cd. 



At the commemrement of tin; official year Prof. (!yrus 'fhomas was engaged in ex- 

 amining and correct ing t he juoof of iiis ••Catalogue of I'nhistorie Works East of 

 the Rocky Mountains," which was luiblisluMl in the lattei p;n 1 of ISiH. as a llnlletin 

 of the Hureau. Tliis examinat ion in\.d\ed in many cases liie necessity >>{' -.i lefer- 

 enee to the authorities i[uot<'(l. 



