ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LXI 



Work in Dii/fJiolof/i/ — Mr Frank Hamilton Cnshing has con- 

 tinued the preparation of a memoir on the arrow games of 

 America, and Mr Stewart CuHn, who lias sliared and supple- 

 mented Mr Cushino-'s work by researches relating chiefly to 

 divinatory games in other countries and comparative studies 

 in jjrimitive gaming in all countries, has completed his contri- 

 bution to the subject. The researches of Messrs Gushing and 

 Culin have brought to light many significant facts bearing on 

 the usages, beliefs, and ethnic relatif)ns t)f early peoples. 



Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson has continued the preparation of 

 her report on the Zuni. 



Work ill lingiiistics — Mr J. Owen Dorsey divided the month 

 between (1) recording on dictionary sli])s the words of the 

 Winnebago texts recorded last year, and (2) the extension of 

 the phonetic alphabet required for the utterance of primitive 

 languages. In the former work good progress was made; and 

 in the latter, thanks to the aid furnished Ijy the venerable 

 Archdeacon John Joseph Nouri, of the Eastern Church under 

 the Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, excellent progress also 

 was made. 



Dr A. S. Gatschet continued the extraction of Shawnee 

 vocables and grammatic elements; in addition, he gave some 

 time to perfecting the Peoria, to making additions to the com- 

 parative vocabulary of the AlgoiKjuian languages, and to the 

 study of the Mexican material recently collected liv Dr Carl 

 Lumholtz. 



]\Ir J. N. B. Hewitt continued general linguistic studies 

 relating to the northwestern families, and in addition made, in 

 connection with Dr Gatschet, critical examination of the Lum- 

 holtz Mexican material and transcribed a considerable part of 

 the Tarahumari vocabulary, with a view to publication. The 

 material collected by Lumholtz is of great interest, since sev- 

 eral of the tribes examined yet retain the primitive condition 

 in many respects, the language in particular being hardly 

 modified through the advent of white men. Li one case his 

 linguistic material represents a decadent dialect, only three or 

 four individuals remaining who are familiar with it. 



Work in hibUofiraphij — !Mr James C. Pilling has continued 

 the preparation of material for the Shahaptian bibliography, 



