XXXII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 

 WORK OF MR. A. M. STEPHEN. 



Mr. A. M. Stephen was engaged during half of the fiscal 

 year in collecting traditions and other matter from the Tusayan 

 villages and among the Navajo. He has transmitted a number 

 of valuable short papers on these topics and also on the house- 

 lore of the Tusayan Indians, and has furnished descriptions 

 and drawings of the &quot;kisis&quot; or rude temporary shelters of the 

 Tusayan, comparing these with the primitive structures of the 

 Navajo. 



WORK OF MR, JAMES MOONEY. 



Mr. James Mooney spent the earlier months of the fiscal 

 year in making an examination of the northern division of the 

 Cherokee tribe with reference to the dialectic difference be 

 tween its vocabulary and that of the main body of the same 

 tribe in the Indian Territory, from which it has long been sep 

 arated, and also in studying for a like comparison their religious 

 practices, traditions, social customs, and arts. The northern 

 Cherokees are found to have been less affected by civilization 

 than those of the south, and they can therefore be studied 

 with manifest advantage. Mr. Mooney procured a large amount 

 of valuable material from them, some of which has been pub 

 lished in the Seventh Annual Report of this Bureau. 



PICTOGRAPHY. 



The publications of Henry R. Schoolcraft, issued in 1853, 

 upon the pictographs of the Ojibwa give the impression that 

 they were nearly as far advanced in hieroglyphic writing as 

 the Egyptians were immediately before their pictorial repre 

 sentations had become syllabic. Doubts had been entertained 

 of the accuracy of this account, and it was considered to be 

 the duty of the Bureau of Ethnology to resolve them. At the 

 beginning of the fiscal year, therefore, Col. Garrick Mallery 

 and Mr. W. J. Hoffman, his assistant, were directed to proceed 

 to Indian reservations in Minnesota and Wisconsin and study 

 what might, remain accessible on the subject. 



