XLIV REPORT OF THE BUREAU OP ETHNOLOGY 



"Arrow Games and their Vai'iants in America and tlic < )ri('nt.'' 

 Many curious and presuni])tively significant relations are 

 brouffht to lifflit hv means of this stud\-. Mr Stewart ( 'ulin, 

 who is engaged jointly with Mr (lushing in this work, lias 

 obtained additional data relative to earlv Chinese games of 

 similar character. Mr ( *ushin>i- savs: '' A stu(U' of these g-ames 

 reveals the fact that they were actualh' ])laved with arrows or 

 Avere still recognized as arrow games l)y the players them- 

 selves as late as during the eleventh and twelfth centuries B. C, 

 and thus a historic evidence of the arrow origin of lot and 

 dice games in the Orient, confirming- conclusively, in Mr Culin's 

 estimation, my hyjjothesis, founded on a studv of specimens 

 only, as to the identical origin of such games in America and 

 as to their extremely nrcliaic character, has been secured." 

 Just before the end of the montli Mr Cusliing' was so fortunate 

 as to come in contact witli an educated A'oung Aztec-Spanish 

 Mexican, Louis 0. Moctezmna, from whom he will doubtless 

 be able to obtain much additional information in relation to 

 the primitive games of southwestern United States and Mexico. 

 This study by Messrs Gushing and Culin is yielding results of 

 unexpected, and it would appear remarkaV)lv high, ethnic value. 



3Irs M. C. Stevenson's work has imfortunately sutfered inter- 

 ference through serious illness, Init progress has been made in 

 the arrangement of illustrati^'e material and text for a report 

 on Zuni ceremonials. 



IVork in linr/uistics — During the earlier part of the month 

 Mr Dorsey continued the arrangement of manuscripts in the 

 fireproof vault. He also made progress in the preparation of 

 the index to volume ix of the Gontributions to North American 

 Ethnologv, and was occupied for some time in transcribing 

 Kwapa material for use in the field in January and February. 

 Some time was spent also in indexing his memoir on "A Study 

 of Siouan Cults," now in press in the Eleventh Annual Re- 

 port. Some days were spent also in preparing for a field trip. 



Dr Alljcrt S. Gatschet continued Avork on his notes relating 

 to the Peoria language, and practically completed the extrac- 

 tion of terms for the vocabulary, and nearly completed the 

 extraction of grammatic elements. His work on this language 



