LXIV REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY 



Tepeluiani Indians and their settlements was obtained from 

 him for use in the synonymy of tlie Pirn an stock. Meantime 

 Mr Hodge contiimed the administration of the hbrary, and 

 reports valuable additions by gift and exchange. 



Mr James Mooney has continued work on the synonymy, 

 and has also nearly brought to comjjletiou his memoir on the 

 Messiah religion and the Ghost ilance, which it is proposed to 

 incorporate in the Fourteenth Annual Report. During the 

 month the map required to illustrate his bulletin on the eastern 

 Siouan tribes has been completed, and the data will be for- 

 warded for publication within a few days. 



Work in myflioloiji/ — Mr Fraidv Hamilton Gushing has been 

 employed on his memoir relating to primitive arrow games. 

 Some time was spent also by him, witli the assistance of Mr 

 William Dinwiddie, in arranging figures and groups and other 

 materials in the National Museum, and in making photographs 

 of the most significant of these for the Museum collection. 



Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson has made satisfactory progress on 

 her memoir relating to the Zuni, and it is expected that this 

 elaborate report will within a few months be readj' for the press. 



IFor/r ill linfiuistics — Mr ,T. Owen Dorsey completed the prep- 

 aration of the index to volume ix of the Contributions to North 

 American Ethnology, and also made a critical exannnation of 

 a paper by Dr Thomas concerning supposed loan words from 

 Polynesian languages, found among the Indians of Mexico 

 and southwestern United States. His chief wcn'k, however, 

 was that on the Winnebago dictionary, already noted. A large 

 number of dictionary slips, with notes, granimatic elements, 

 and free P^nglish translations, were prepared. 



Ur A. S. Gatschet was employed cln'efly in the extension of 

 his Shawnee dictionary and in extracting- g-rammatic elements 

 from the 750 manuscript pages of text and other material relat- 

 ing' to this lano-uaare. Meantime material additions were made 

 to his comparative Algoncpiian vocabulary. He, too, made an 

 examination of the linguistic material sent in by Dr Thomas. 



Mr J. N. B. Hewitt spent the first half of the month in trans- 

 literating the Tarahumari material collected by Dr Carl Lum- 

 holtz, part of tlie time with the assistance of the collector. 



