194 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



practices. An animal list, in the preparation of which I was assisted 

 by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, who had also worked with the San Juan 

 Indians, gives descriptions and lore about the animals as well as their 

 names. Accounts of several mineral products were also obtained. 



Doha Ascension survived long enough for me to do full duty to the 

 recording of her information, and the material is at the present writ- 

 ing practically ready for the printer with the exception of some sec- 

 tions of the linguistic information. The information is of the great- 

 est importance for understanding the ethnology of a section of Cali- 

 fornia from which little has been recorded, for the history of San 

 Juan Mission, and for putting on record the San Juan language and 

 the Spanish language as spoken by San Juan Indians. 



