od REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 
and descriptions of a large number of petroglyphs and other forms of pictographs 
found in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and in many islands have been collated for 
the publication of selected and typical illustrations. With the same object, still 
more earnest attention has been directed to the synoptic presentation of illustrations 
from Mexico and Central and-South America, as being presumably more closely con- 
nected than is the eastern hemisphere with the similar developments found in the 
present area of the United States, whether enduring on rocks with authorship un- 
known, or actually in current use among most of the Indian tribes. At the close of 
the fiscal year the treatise was substantially completed, the delay in its delivery to 
the Public Printer, as the contents of one of the forthcoming volumes in the series of 
annual reports of this Bureau, being occasioned by the preparation of the large num- 
ber of illustrations required. 
Mr. Henry W. Henshaw during the entire year devoted his time to administrative 
work and to continuing the preparation of the Dictionary of Indian Tribes, before ex- 
plained in detail. 
Prof. Cyrus Thomas was engaged during the year chiefly in the preparation of the 
second volume of his report on the archeology of the mound area of the United 
States, and other office work necessary in connection with the publication of a 
bulletin on the list of mound localities, the preparation of maps therefor, and of illus- 
trations for the first volume of his report. When the whole manuscript was taken 
up for examination, preparatory to printing, its bulk was found to be too great for 
one volume. It was then decided to publish the part relating to mound localities in 
a bulletin. As this necessitated some change in the manuscript, the opportunity was 
embraced to incorporate the additional data which had been obtained. The bulletin 
was in print at the close of the year, though not yet issued. 
Mr. W. H. Holmes included in his office work the preparation for the monographs 
of Profe Cyrus Thomas of papers upon pottery, shell, textile fabrics, pipes, and 
other productions of the mound-building tribes, and the writing of reports upon the 
numerous explorations made during the year. These reports have been brought up 
to date and are on file. He has adopted the policy of preparing reports upon field 
work for file as the work proceeds, and his assistants are expected at the close of each 
separate piece of exploration or unit of study to make a report upon it of a sufficiently 
finished nature to serve the purpose of record and reference in case of their disability 
or separation from the office. 
Rey. J. Owen Dorsey prepared the index to his monograph, The ('egiha Language- 
Myths, Stories, and Letters, and corrected the proof sheets of the second part of 
that volume. He resumed his work on the (egiha-English dictionary, inserting 
many new words occurring in the texts and referring to each new word by page and 
line of the text. He devoted considerable time to the synonymy of the Athapascan, 
Caddoan, Kusan, Siouan, Takilman, and Yakonan families; comparing authorities, 
writing historical sketches of the tribes, gentes, and villages of those linguistic 
families, and rearranging all the material, in order to have it ready for printing. 
From December, 1890, to March, 1891, with the aid of a Kwapa delegate in Wash- 
ington, he collected much information respecting the Kwapa or Quapaw tribe, a peo- 
ple closely related to the Omaha and Ponka, from whom they separated prior to 
1540. Since March, 1891, he has been elaborating that material, which consists of 
about 150 personal names, arranged according to sex and gens, with the meaning of 
the name whenever attainable; over 3,500 entries for a Kwapa-English dictionary 
and several epistles and myths with grammatical and sociologic notes. This material 
will be of great assistance to him in the preparation of the Gegiha-English diction- 
ary and other papers. 
He also prepared for publication the following papers: A study of Siouan cults, 
illustrated with numerous sketches colored by Indians; Omaha and Ponka letters, 
containing the (egiha epistles, which could not be published in Contributions to 
North American Ethnology, Vol. v1; an iHustrated paper on Omaha dwellings, far- 
niture, and implements; a paper on the social organization of the Siouan tribes- 
