XXXVI ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



families of the North American Indians in the territory north 

 of Mexico. When not engaged in this work or in executive 

 duties he continued the preparation of a dictionary of the 

 nature of a synonymy of tribal names of North American In 

 dians, the general character and object of which have been 

 set forth in a former report. While in general charge of that 

 division of the office work, he specially attended to the Sahap- 

 tinian, Salishan, Cheniakuman, Chinookan, and several other 

 linguistic, stocks of the Pacific slope. 



Mr. ALBERT 8. GATSCHET was engaged during the first five 

 months of the year in digesting the results of his recent trip to 

 Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico, and utilizing them in the com 

 pilation of the adian tribal synonymy in course of prepara 

 tion by the Bureau. His designated share in that work com 

 prised the families of the southern Indians from the Rio Grande 

 to the Atlantic seaboard of Florida, namely, the stocks of the 

 Natchez, Atakapa, Shetimasha, Tonkawe, Pakawa (otherwise 

 known under the vague designation of &quot; ( oahuilteco or Te- 

 jano&quot;), Tonica, Yuchi, Timucua, and most important of them 

 all the Maskoki. His work of correlating for the synonymy 

 the information gained concerning these tribes was completed, 

 though some important tribes can not be classified linguis 

 tically, e.g., the extinct Koreas and Pascagoulas, on account of 

 the absence, in the documents of early chroniclers, of all in 

 formation relating to them. The Ada-i, classed by Gallatin 

 as a distinct family, is believed by Mi-. Gatschet to be affiliated 

 with the Caddoan stock as a dialect distantly related toYatassi 

 and Caddo proper. 



After concluding his labors on the tribal synonymy, Mr. 

 Gatschet resumed work on the grammar of the Klamath lan 

 guage of southwestern Oregon. He combined all the results 

 of his recent studies of both dialects, the northern and the 

 southern, with the facts previously acquired by him and com 

 posed a treatise on the morphology of the language. This 

 was rewritten by him three times in order to secure complete 

 ness and accuracy. The &quot;phonetics&quot; and the chapters on 

 radicals and on prefixion were stereotyped. 



