XXXIV REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



now (ln)])j)ing- into di.suse. Extended data connected with the 

 Ghost dance were collected, tog'ether \\itli sonys and myths 

 bearing- thereon, us well a A-ocahnlaries and notes on the tribal 

 organization of the Caddo and other tribes. 



Mr F. W. Hodg-e, who has been jjlaced in charge of the 

 librar^•, in addition to his work on the Tribal Synonymy, 

 has been occupied chieflA' in the transfer and arrangement of 

 books and pamphlets from the old quarters of the Bureau to 

 its present domicile. In addition, he prepared a catalog of and 

 general index to publications of the Bureau, which has been 

 sent to the printer as a bulletin. Also, he completed the 

 Piman synonymy and described the Concho tribe or division 

 with its various settlements formerly' in the Concho valley of 

 eastern Chihuahua. The relations of this people are obscure; 

 of their language nothing is known to literature; and it is 

 uncertain whether they were connected linguistically with the 

 Piman or neighboring tribes, or whether tlieir relations were 

 with the ])eoples of Texas and the interior. 



J]^ork hi niijtItoJofijj — Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson has con- 

 tinued the work of pre})ai'ing a report on certain myths and 

 cerenumials of the Zuili, and has made satisfactory progress. 



^Ir Frank Hamilton Gushing has been occupied chiefly in 

 the study of gaming apparatus from Mexico and Indian Terri- 

 torj^, and in com])aring these occidental games with certain 

 analogous games of tlie Orient, as well as \arious other games 

 of divinatory origin or character tVom different sources. Sat- 

 isfactory ])rogTess was made in the prepai'ation, by Mr Cushing- 

 jointly Avith Mr Stewart Culin, of a memoir on "Arrow Games 

 and their Variants in America and the Orient." Many signifi- 

 cant facts and relations bearing on the concepts have been 

 brousi'ht to liii'lit in the course of Mr C'ushing-'s investigations. 

 Collateral lines of stuch- have been jnirsued by Mr Cushing 

 with success. 



Work hi. ImguisUcs. — Mr J. Owen Dorsey continued the 

 revision of proofs of his "Study of Siouan Cults," forming part 

 of the Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau, and also 

 revised the galley ])roofs of lliggs' "Dakota Grammar, Texts 

 and Ethnography," forming volume ix of the Contributions to 



