LTI ANNUAL RETORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



the "Introduction t<> the Study of Indian Languages" with 



words and data from the Muskoki or Creek language, and in 

 addition to the words indicated in the Introduction eight 

 hundred others were collected. ( )f these nearly three hundred 

 were verbs. He then transferred to the recognized alphabet 

 a vocabulary of words in the Caddo language, and arranged 

 in the same alphabet a considerable collection of words in the 

 Chinook jargon made by Lieutenant Belden. This collection 

 contains many words not found in Gibbs's vocabulary and 

 will be useful in a new publication of the jargon or as a con- 

 tribution to a collation of its different existing forms. He 

 also filled a volume of the Introduction in Seneca and began 

 tin- collection of the Seneca folk lore, obtaining some suggest- 

 ive tales and accounts of beliefs and superstitions. 



ACCOMPANYING PAPERS. 



The papers presented in this volume fairly illustrate the 

 number of objects and the range of .facts collected by the 

 Bureau, and the character of the studies made thereon, in 

 conducting its investigations. These papers are all so inti- 

 mately connected with the graphic or plastic arts in their 

 origin and application as to have required a large amount of 

 illustration, there being five hundred and sixty-five figures in 

 the text besides eighty-three full page plates. Special mention 

 of each of these papers follows in their order as printed. 



It is proper to note that two other papers were prepared 

 and stereotyped with the intention of including them in this 

 volume, but it was found that they would increase its bulk to 

 inconvenience. These last mentioned papers, which will ap- 

 pear in the fifth annual report, are as follows: 



Burial mounds of the northern sections of the Ujiited States, by Prof. Cyrus 

 Thomas, pp. 1-119. 



The Cherokee nation of Indians; a narrative of their official relations with the 

 Colonial and Federal Governments, by Charles C. Royce, pp. 121-378. 



PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, BY GARRICK 



MALLERY. 



In the winter of 1876, Brevet Lt, Col. Garrick Mallery, U. 

 S. A, was in command at Fort Rice, on the Upper Missouri 



