OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XXXVII 



Mr. J. OWEN DOKSEY was engaged from July to December, 

 1887, in translating the Teton texts of Mr. George Bushotter, 

 a Uakotan, who was employed under his direction. This col 

 lection consists of myths, legends, historical papers, an auto 

 biography, accounts of games, folk-lore, and epistles, amount 

 ing to two hundred and fifty -eight textual manuscripts. This 

 joint work was continued until the following December, when 

 Mr. Bushotter s employment ceased, leaving one hundred and 

 twenty-nine texts to be translated. Mr. Dorsey then con 

 tinued the work alone until April 18, 1888, when another Da- 

 kotan, Mr. John Bruyier, of Cheyenne River agency, began 

 to revise and interpret the Tetou texts, making man} correc 

 tions in the originals and supplying important parts omitted 

 by Bushotter. Mr. Bruyier also furnished Mr. Dorsey with 

 many examples of the Teton as spoken at the Cheyenne River 

 reservation, which showed that it differed considerably from 

 that spoken at the Lower Bride and Pine Ridge reservations. 

 He also wrote new versions of several myths, continuing his 

 work until June 30, 1888. 



I hiring the autumn of 1887, Mr. Dorsey completed his work 

 on the Siouan, Caddoan, Athapascan, Takilman, Kusan, and 

 Yakonan cards for the Indian synonymy. I le also prepared 

 nearly four hundred type-written foolscap pages of (egiha 

 epistles, legends, and other texts, which constitute an important 

 addition to those published in Contributions to North Amer 

 ican Ethnology, vol. vi, Part 1. He also transliterated on 

 slips in alphabetic order his Winnebago material, obtained in 

 1878- 79, collating it with the additional material obtained in 

 1886. This contains fully four thousand entries. He gave 

 much attention to the Catawba language, collating parts of a 

 recent vocabulary which had been procured by Mr. Gatschet 

 with all others which were accessible. 



Mr. JEREMIAH CURTIN contributed to the Indian synonymy 

 with reference to several tribes in Oregon and ( alifornia and 

 devoted much study to the large number of myths obtained 

 by him from the same tribes; also to those of the Iroquois. 



Mr. JAMES C. PILLING continued throughout the year to give 

 a portion of his time to the preparation of the bibliographies 



