XXIV ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



fully acknowledged, will always receive proper credit, and, 

 when practicable, will be published in the manner provided by 

 law. The present volume contains two valuable papers by 

 collaborators who are not directly connected with the Bureau. 

 The report now submitted consists of three principal divi 

 sions. The first relates to the publications made during the 

 fiscal year, the second to the work prosecuted in the field, 

 and the third to the office work, which consists largely of the 

 preparation for publication of the results of field work, with 

 the corrections and additions obtained from the literature on 

 the subjects discussed and by correspondence relating to them. 



. PUBLICATIONS. 



The publications actually issued and distributed during the 

 year were as follows: 



The Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to 

 the Smithsonian Institution, 1883- 84. It is an imperial octavo 

 volume of liii-{-560 pages, illustrated by 23 plates (of which 

 10 are colored) and 77 figures in the text. The official re 

 port of the Director, occupying 37 pages (pp. xvii-liii), is accom 

 panied by the following papers: 



Burial Mounds of the Northern Section of the United States, 

 by Cyrus Thomas; pp. 3-119, Pis. i-vi, Figs. 1-49. 



The Cherokee Nation of Indians : A Narrative of their Offi 

 cial Relations with the Colonial and Federal Governments, by 

 Charles C. Royce; pp. 121-378, Pis. vn-ix, of which vm and 

 ix are folding maps in a pocket at the end of the volume. 



The Mountain Chant : A Navajo Ceremony, by Dr. Wash 

 ington Matthews, U. S. Army; pp. 379-467, Pis. x-xvni, Figs. 

 50-59. 



The Seminole Indians of Florida, by Clay MacCauley; pp. 

 469-531, PI. xix, Figs. 60-77. 



The Religious Life of the Zuni Child, by Mrs. Tilly E. Steven 

 son; pp. 533-555, Pis. xx-xxin. 



Also the following bulletins, all 8vo : 



Bibliography of the Eskimo Language, by James C. Pilling; 

 1887, pp. v+1-116, with facsimile, on page 73, of first syllabary 



