56 REPORT OF THE fiEORETAEY. 



Letters," a Ijullet ill prepaied from () eg ilia texts collected liy Tiiinself. He fiiiisbed 

 the eollatiou of all the Tntelo words recorded by Dr. Hale. Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, and 

 biiuself, with the result that he hnd 775 words in the Tuteh)-Euglisli dictionary. 

 He furnished a list of several hundred linguistic and sociologic questions to be used 

 among Indian tribes, 'i'licse (jnestions were in addition to those contained in the 

 second edition of l^twcil's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages and were 

 based on original investigations made by Mr. Horsey among the Sionan tribes. He 

 prepared for pnblication the following articles: Siouan Onomatopes (sonnd-roots), 

 illustrated by charts; The Social Oroanization of Siouan Tribes, illustrated by fig- 

 ures consisting chiefly of material gained by himself from the Dakota tribes, the 

 Omaha, Ponka, Kwapa, Osage, Kansa, lov.a, Oto, Missouri, Winnebago, and Tntelo ; 

 Nanibozhu in Sionan j\Iythology; Games of Teton Dakota Children (translated and 

 arranged from the original Teton manuscript in the Bnshotter <'ollection of the 

 Bureau of Ethnology). 



After his return i'roni Louisiana he devoted most of his time to the arrangement of 

 the material collected in his Biloxi note-books. He prepared a Biloxi-English dic- 

 tionary of 3,183 words on about 7,000 slips in alphabetic order. He arranged the 

 Biloxi texts for publication, adding to the myths (with their interlinear and free 

 English translations and critical notes) a list of several hundred Biloxi phrases. 

 In his article on the Biloxi kinship system, he gave 53 kinship groups, of which 

 number only 27 have their counterparts in the Dakota, (f'egiha, and other Siouan 

 languages of the Missouri valley. The elaboration of all the Biloxi material could 

 not be completed by June 30, 1892. 



Mr. Alberl S. Gatschet assisted in augmenting and improving the data for the 

 Tribal Synonymy now in preparation, by extracting material from a number of 

 books and original reports especially referring to southern and southwestern In- 

 dians. His main AV(n-k during the year was directed towards extracting and arrang- 

 ing some of the more extensive vocabularies made by him previously in the field. 

 After completing the Tonkawe of Texas, he caided each word of the Shawano and 

 Creek languages obtained by him, copied the historical and legendary texts of both, 

 and extracted the lexical and grammatic elements from them to serve as the ground- 

 work for future grammars. The remains of the Virginia or Powhatan languages 

 that are known were also made accessible by carding the terms. 



During the fiscal year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt was a part of the time engaged in careful 

 study of the grammatic forms of the Iroquoian languages, especially in the ascer- 

 tainment of the number and order in which the aftixes maybe used with one and 

 the same stem or base. He was also engaged in translating, extracting, and trans- 

 ferring to library cards, from the "Decouvcrtes et Etablissements des Franfais dans 

 I'Amerique seiitentrionale," by Pierre Margry, matter relating to the manners, cus- 

 toms, beliefs, rights, ceremonies, and history of the Iroquois, which matter is now 

 placed on about 20,000 cards. 



He continued his work on the Tnscarora Dictionary and directed attention to de- 

 velo])ing the full number of ordinary sentences in which every generic noun may 

 be employed, which affords a measure of the capacity of the vocabulary ibr the ex- 

 pression of thought. 



Mr. James C. Pilling continued bis bibliographic work throughout the year, with 

 special attention to the Athapascan family. Work upon this fanuly was begun 

 early in the fiscal year, on October 13 the maniiscript was sent to the printer, and 

 at the close of the year but a few pages of the linal proofs remained unread. The 

 Bibliography of the Athapascan Languages forms a pamphlet of xiii-|-125 pages. 

 While this volume was being put in type Mr. Pilling began the collection of mate- 

 rial for a number of bibliographies relating to the languages of the northwest coast 

 of Ameri<'a — the Chinookaii, Salishaii, and Wakashan, and satisfactory i)rogress has - 

 been made. Probably one or more of them will beready to send to the printer dnr- 



