OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XLI 



The work of the modeling room was continued in his charge 

 throughout the year. No new work was taken up, all avail 

 able labor being used in preparing a series of duplicates of 

 models previously deposited in the National Museum. This 

 work was continued from last year. The series is not yet com 

 pleted, but the accumulations on hand at the end of the fiscal 

 vear were sufficient to enable the Bureau to make a creditable 

 display at the Cincinnati Exposition without withdrawing, to 

 any large extent, the models deposited in the National Mu 

 seum. During the year eight models were added to the dupli 

 cate series and three other models were commenced. 



Dr. WASHINGTON MATTHEWS, Surgeon U. S. Army, continued 

 work upon a grammar and dictionary of the Navajo language. 



Mr. &quot;W. NELSON was still engaged in the preparation of his 

 paper, mentioned in the last report, upon the Eskimo of north 

 ern Alaska, comprising a dictionary with notes upon the gram 

 mar of the language and also upon the myths and customs of 

 the people. 



Mr. JOHN N. B. HEWITT has continued the study of the 

 Iroquoian languages and the preparation of a Tuscarora-Eng- 

 lish dictionary. He also worked upon the comparison of 

 words, radicals, and terms in the Iroquoian languages with 

 those in the Cherokee and in determining the prehistoric hab 

 itat of the Iroquois. 



For several years past it has been part of the work of the 

 Bureau to take advantage of the frequent presence in Wash 

 ington of parties styled &quot;delegations&quot; from the several Indian 

 tribes, for the purpose of photographing all the individuals 

 composing them. These are generally the prominent men of 

 the tribes represented by them, and their photographs have 

 biographic and historic interest as well as anthropologic impor 

 tance. Mr. ,T. K. Hillers has been in charge of this branch of 

 the work, and during the last year has secured ninety-nine 

 photographs of prominent Indians in both full face and profile, 

 in order to exhibit to better advantage all their facial charac 

 teristics. The subjects were from the following tribes, viz: 



White Mountain Apache, 15 persons; Chiricahua Apache, 

 20; Jicarilla Apache, 8; Sac and Fox, 7; LJtes, 4; Shawnee, 

 9; Omaha, 20; Dakota, 11 ; Oto and Missouri, f&amp;gt;. 



