ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXXV 



North AiiR-rifau Ethnology. In addition, he has been oecupied 

 lai'o-eh' in the rearranffenient of the lingruistic material of the 

 Bureau, cataloguing- the manuscripts and storing them in fire- 

 proof vaults in the Bureau office. During the later half of 

 the mouth he was occupied in part in collecting Winnebago 

 texts as dictated l)y Philip Longtail, an intelligent re})resenta- 

 tive of that tribe, and in this way has been able to close a 

 serioits hiatus in knowledge concerning the Siouan tribes. 



Dr A. S. Gatschet has continued his work tni the Peoria 

 lan<ruaffe. He now has more than three thousand Peoria 

 words arranged on slips. In addition, he has a large body of 

 information relating to the grauunatic structure of the lan- 

 guage under not fewer than forty captions, the wdiole l)eing 

 svstematicalh' arranged with a ^•iew first to reference and 

 later to uublication. 



Mr J. N. B. Hewitt has lieen steadily employed in the office, 

 chiefly in describing little-known customs of the Irocjuoiau 

 people, special attention being given to food products, notably 

 maize. The etymologic elements of certain geographic terms 

 were also investigated. Toward the close of the month Mr 

 Hewitt was employed, under the supervision of ^Ir Dorsey, 

 in arranging- the linguistic and other manuscripts of the Bureau 

 in firejjroof vaults, and in preparing a card catalog to these 

 archives 



Tl'o/7,- ijt hih/iiu/rKplu/ — Mr Pilling has been actively eng-aged 

 in bibliographic work. An opportunity for comparing his 

 elaborate collections with those of other students has just l:)een 

 afforded through the publication of a "Bibliografia Espanola 

 de Lenguas Indigenas de Amei'ica" by Count Vinaza. The 

 result of the comparison tends to establish the substantial 

 completeness of the Pilling collection. After making this 

 comparistm, ^Ir Pilling i-ontinued the preparation of the main 

 bibliographic catalog', adding- titles taken from the Chinookan 

 and Salishan bibliographies, and has introduced certain modi- 

 fications in the arrangement of the catalog with the \iew of 

 tacilitating reference. 



Work ill. socioloiiji — The Ethnologist in Charge has been 

 occupied largel\- in administrative Avork and in the editing and 

 proof revision of the jiublications of the Bureau. 



