ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXIX 



the mouth of the Puerco, and in two lines across the Mog-oHou 

 mountains. The closing' days of the month were spent at 

 Holbrook, outlitting- for further work; hut progress in this 

 direction was slow by reason of exceptional rain storms and 

 floods. 



Work in sign lanyuugv and pidofp'upliy — Having- practically 

 completed the proof revision of his memoir on the Picture- 

 writing of the American Indians, Colonel Garrick Mallery 

 has taken up the material relating to sign language, gesture 

 speech, pantomime, etc, with a view of monographing this sub- 

 ject also, and satisfactory progress has been made in the 

 arrangement of the matter. A part of the month was, how- 

 ever, spent in field woi-k in the Lake Superior region for the 

 purpose of obtaining more precise information concerning- cer- 

 tain points on which the data at hand are obscure. 



His memoir on Picture-writing, forming- the body of the 

 Tenth Annual Report, is stereotyped; and it is reported to be 

 on the press. 



Work on the Sipiomfmy of Indian tribes — Mr F. W. Hodge 

 continued the preparation of material for the Synonymy. 

 During the month the Jumanf)S (a formerly important tribe 

 occup^dng an extensive area in what are now the states of 

 Chihuahua, in Mexico, and New Mexico, in the United States) 

 were described as completely as the material olitainable will 

 permit, the work leading to a tentative identification of this 

 little-known tribe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 

 with the Comanche of a later period. Work was carried for- 

 ward also on the Pueblos and on the synonymy of the tribes of 

 the Pi man stock, nmch valuable information relating to the pop- 

 ulation, mission names, etymology, etc, of the latter tribe being 

 obtained from rare })ublications. Extended correspondence 

 in relation to the Pima and other peoples was also conducted. 



Mr James Mooney remains in tlie field. During- the mt)nth 

 of Septendjer he was occupied on the Kiowa reservation in 

 Oklahoma, making additions to Kiowa linguistics and etlmo- 

 logic materials, particularly in collecting mystic songs, which 

 were recorded by means of the graphophone. Some material 

 for synonymy was obtained. 



