OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XLIII 



The old mission church at Caughnawaga and the Semi 

 nary of the Sulpicians at Oka, on the Ottawa River, are now 

 the principal repositories of those sermons, catechisms, vocab- 

 ularies, grammars, and dictionaries which represent the labors 

 of the French Roman Catholic missionaries among the Iroquois 

 during two hundred years. 



Through the courtesy of the Superiors Le Clair and Antoine 

 and the Rev. Father Burtin, several hundred titles were secured 

 by Mrs. Smith for the bibliography of Indian Linguistics in 

 preparation by Mr. Pilling. The most remarkable and the 

 most important of these rare books in manuscript is the French- 

 Mohawk dictionary compiled during the early part of this cent- 

 ury bv the Rev. Father Marcoux, which was of great utility 

 to Mrs. Smith in her office work, as mentioned under that head- 

 ing. 



WORK OF DR. W. J. HOFFMAN. 



From August to November, 1883, Dr. W. J. Hoffman, under 

 the direction of Col. Garrick Mallery, prosecuted investiga- 

 tions among the several Indian tribes of California and Nevada 

 with special reference to gesture language and pictographs. 

 The total number of tribes visited amounts to between forty 

 and fifty, and they are embraced in the following linguistic 

 divisions, viz: Yuman, Shoshonian, Mariposan, Moquelumnan, 

 Yukian, Mendocinan, Copean, Pujunan, and Washoan. 



Through the assistance of an intelligent Alaskan, at San 

 Francisco, Cal., an exhaustive collection of Alaskan gestures 

 was obtained, in addition to valuable material and interpreta- 

 tions, with original texts of narratives and records carved on 

 walrus ivory. A number of drawings were also prepared 

 from the original ivory carvings and pictographs in the mu- 

 seum of the Alaskan Commercial Company. Besides these, 

 small collections were obtained from Japanese, and from indi- 

 vidual Indians belonging to tribes not included in the above 

 list of linguistic stocks. 



WORK OF DR. WASHINGTON MATTHEWS. 



Dr. Washington Matthews, Assistant Surgeon U. S. A., 

 while on his regular military duty at Fort Wingate, N. Mex., 



