LVIII REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



Slialiaptian biblio<^'raphy it does not retard the Ijilaliographic 

 work ill general, for the study of hterature and the collection 

 of titles relating- to other western stocks receive constant 

 attention. A large number of titles relating- to the languages 

 of Mexico have recently been brought together. 



PnhJlcattons — The Tenth Annual Report has passed through, 

 the folding- room and the Twelftli is going through the press, 

 while the Eleventh will at once follow. The Thirteenth Re- 

 port is in the printer's hands and proofs are daily expected. 

 The bulletin on the Pamunkey Indians by John Clarland Pol- 

 lard has been distributed. The revision of the proofs of Dr 

 Thomas' bulletin on The Maya Year has been completed and 

 the work has been ordered stereotyped. Mr Pilling's Bibliog- 

 raphy of the Wakashan Languages has been re'sased, and most 

 of the matter is stereotyped. Three signatures of the bul- 

 letin on Chinook Texts by Dr Franz Boas are in pages, and 

 botli page and galley proofs are passing rapidly through the 

 liands of the author and through this office. Proofs of 

 the bulletin by Professor Holmes on "An Aboriginal Quarry in 

 Indian Territory" are daily expected. Two bulletins, respec- 

 tively by Mr James Mooney on "Siouan Tribes of the East'^ 

 and Mr Gerard Fowke on "Archeologic Investigations in 

 James and Potomac Vallevs," have been prepared during the 

 month and will be transmitted for printing so soon as the illus- 

 trations have been completed. 



OPERATIOXS DURING APRIL 



The field work of the month has been limited to that carried 

 forward bv Mr Cosmos Mindeletf in the Pueblo countrA', and 

 restricted operations in Virginia by the Ethnologist in Charge, 

 Professor W. H. Holmes, and Mr William Dinwiddie ; with 

 these exceptions, the operations represent work conducted in 

 the office. 



Worh in sir/n language — Colonel Garrick Mallery has made 

 satisfactory progress in the preparation of his monograph on 

 gestm'e signs and signals. A number of the requisite draw- 

 ings have been executed and a portion of the text has been 

 made ready for the printer. 



