LXXX BEPOET OF THE BUREAU OP ETHNOLOGY 



within the hxst five years the records have been found so use- 

 ful, and the demand for information contained therein so 

 extensive, that a plan for publication has been formulated. 



In accordance with this jilan the material will be arranged 

 by linguistic stocks and published in bulletin form in the order 

 of completion, each bulletin comprising a stock. In addition 

 to the usual pagination the bulletins devoted to the subject will 

 be consecutively paged (at the bottom) for the series, and it 

 is proposed to complete the series by a bulletin so arranged as 

 to form at the same time an index to the whole and an abbre- 

 viated dictionary of the tribal and other names used by the 

 American Indians. In accordance with this plan the materials 

 pertaining to a number of the stocks have been made ready 

 for the press, with the exception of brief introductions which 

 remain to be written. 



During the first half of the fiscal year Dr W. J. Hofi'man 

 continued the investigation of the Menomini and related 

 Indians in field and office and prepared an elaborate memoir, 

 entitled "The Menomini Indians," which has been submitted 

 for publication in the Fourteenth Annual Report. This tribe, 

 located in northeastern Wisconsin, has long been known in a 

 general way, but has received little scientific study. Dr Hoff"- 

 man's memoir embraces a history of the tribe from its dis- 

 covery by Nicollet in 1634 to the present day, including the 

 several treaties made with the Federal Government ; it includes 

 also the genealogies of the two rival lines of hereditary chiefs, 

 together with an exposition of the ceremonials of the several 

 cult societies, and of the mythology, industries, ai'ts, and man- 

 ufactures of the tribe. 



SOCIOLOGY 



From time to time during ilie year the Director found oppor- 

 tunity for collecting additional information relating to the insti- 

 tutions of the American Indians and for the elaboration of 

 material collected during previous years. Mr McGee also made 

 progress in the arrangement of material pertaining to this sub- 

 ject gathered by various collaborators. Mr James Mooney 

 spent several months in the field collecting information rela- 

 ting to the Kiowa, Caddo, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians, 



