LVI REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



^]'o|■k in wesferii arcJleoIor/i/ — Mr Cosmos Mindeleif remains in 

 the Held, engaged chiefly in the ehiboration of maps and notes 

 relating- to ruins examined during the preceding months of the 

 fiscal "\ear. 



Work ill si/iioiiijmij — In the course of his work relating to the 

 synonymy of the eastern Siouan peoples, Mr Moonev brought 

 together a large amount of information relating to these tribes, 

 a part of which is new% wdiile another jiart is recorded only in 

 rare literature and finds its explanation in the newer informa- 

 tion. He has been able to identify several tribes whose hab- 

 itations were recorded by earlier explorers and to trace the 

 nfigrations of each. This information, which is too elaborate 

 for introduction in the Synonymy, but Avhich nevertheless elu- 

 cidates that work, has been brought together in a paper on the 

 "SiouanTribesof the East," which will shortly be transnntted for 

 publication as a bulletin. Meantime Mr Mooney has continued 

 his general work on the svnonvmv and has at the same time 

 carried forward the ])re])aration of his work on the Clhost dance- 

 Mr Hodge continued work on the synonymy of the south- 

 western tribes, and also kept charge of the library. In addition, 

 he made during the month a journey to New York for the pur- 

 pose of examining a collection of manuscript documents relat- 

 ing to equatorial America in possession of Professor Le Metayer 

 de Guichainville. The accounts and samples of these docu- 

 ments which had reached Washington indicated that they might 

 prove of great value to students of the early history of the 

 Spanish concpierors and their relations to the aborigines. Con- 

 siderable information of importance ^vas obtained from the 

 examination of the collection. 



The accessions to the library continue numerous and valu- 

 able, the current literature of anthropology in the dift'erent 

 countries being especially well represented. 



Work ill nii/fJiolofju — Mr Fraidi Hamilton Cushing has con- 

 tinued his study on the arrow games of America, and satisfac- 

 tory progress has been made in the i»rei)aration of text and 

 illustrations. 



Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson is still engaged in the preparation 

 of her report on the Zuni, though progress has been hindered 



