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Mr. Albert S$. Gatschet during the fiscal year was engaged in office work only. 
After having completed the manuscript of the ‘Ethnographic Sketch ” of his work, 
“The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon,” which was published during the. 
year as Vol. 1, Part 1, of Contributions to North American Ethnology, he read the 
proof of it, which was completed in October, 1890. Since then he has been extract- 
ing, copying, and carding the vocabularies and other matter collected by him during 
the past ten years. This work is now accomplished concerning the Tonkawe, the 
Hitchiti, the Shawano, and Powhatan. That relative to the Creek, willsoon be com- 
pleted. A large number of personal tribal and vocal names of Indian origin were 
collected and partly explained in the intervals of the above work. 
Dr. W. J. Hoffman continued the arrangement and classification of material relat- 
ting to the society of shamans of the Ojibwa Indians, which, together with numer- 
ous illustrations, was prepared for publication, and will form part of the Seventh 
Annual Report of the Bureau. This work will present from aboriginal records an 
exposition of the Ojibwa traditions of cosmogony and genesis and the dramatized 
ritual of the myths relating to the same. The musical notation of the songs and 
chants employed before and during the ceremonies of initiation, and copies of all of 
the birch-bark charts bearing the mnemonic characters relating to the ritual will 
be incorporated in the paper, together with the original texts. Dr. Hoffman has 
also been engaged in the elaboration of the data and sketches relating to the pic- 
tography and gesture language of the North American Indians, secured by him 
during previons field seasons. 
Mr. James Mooney devoted the earlier part of the fiscal year to the elaboration of 
his Cherokee material, the first results of which, under the title of ‘‘ Sacred Formu- 
las of the Cherokees,” will appear in the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau. He 
also prepared a short descriptive catalogue of his previous ethnologic collections 
from the Cherokees, and began work on a paper contending that the South Atlantic 
States were formerly occupied by a number of Siouan tribes, if indeed that region 
was not the original home of the Siouan stock. In connection with this investiga- 
tion a closer study of the linguistic material from the Catawban tribes of Carolina 
confirms the statement which has before been published by this Bureau, that they 
belonged to the Siouan family. Mr. Mooney also at intervals assisted on the Dic- 
tionary of Tribal Synonymy. 
Mr. James C. Pilling has continued his bibliographic work throughout the fiscal] 
year. At the date of the last report he was engaged in reading proof of the Bibli- 
ography of the Algonquian Languages. The volume is now ready for the press, and 
will include 614 pages and 82 full page illustrations, chiefly facsimiles of the title- 
pages of rare books, syllabaries, and other interesting bibliographic features. It is 
hoped that the work will be ready for distribution during the autumn of 1891, 
Among the special articles in it is one relating to the labors of “ Apostle” Eliot 
among the Indians of Massachusetts, and more especially to his linguistic work. As 
this author was the earliest and the most noted of those engaged in this line of work, 
considerable space was devoted to him and his works, and it was thought proper to 
issue the article in separate form. It is noted below under the heading of Publi- 
cations. 
Mr. Pilling has ceased to be connected with the U. 8. Geological Survey, being 
transferred to the Bureau of Ethnology, his appointment taking effect May 1, 1891. 
The stock or family of languages proposed to form the subject of his next biblio- 
graphic memoir is the Athapasean. 
Mr. J.N. B. Hewitt has continued his work on the Tuskarora dictionary, the Tus- 
karora-English part being well advanced and the English-Tuskarora part com- 
menced. Much material for the compilation of a complete grammar of the Tuska- 
rora-Iroquoian tongue was added to that before acquired. For this object such 
anomalous, redundant, and defective verbs as have been recorded in the dictionary 
have been conjugated in all the derivative forms of which they are susceptible; a 
difticult but instructive task. Several regular verbs have also been conjugated to 
