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ally, she obtained at Zuni and Sia a number of sacred masks 
used in the religious ceremonies of the people of those pueblos, 
which have been transferred to the National Museum. 
Toward the end of July Dr Albert S. Gatschet repaired to 
eastern Maine and adjacent porticns of New Brunswick in 
search of linguistic material among the tribesmen still living 
on St Croix river. His mission was successful. A large body 
of vocables, paradigms, and texts representing the Passama- 
quoddy dialects of the Algonquian linguistic stock was secured, 
and he was able also to trace definitely, for the first time, the 
derivation of many of the peculiar place names of eastern 
Maine. 
From the middle of August until the middle of December 
Mr J. N. B. Hewitt was occupied in collecting material repre- 
senting the languages and mythology of the Iroquoian Indians 
located in central New York and southern Ontario. His work 
was eminently productive, yielding a large amount of material 
of exceptional use for comparative studies in the philology and 
sophiology of the Indians. 
Toward the end of September Mr James Mconey repaired 
to Indian Territory and Oklahoma, where he spent several 
months in collecting information and material relating chiefly 
to the Kiowa Indians. The primary purpose of the trip was 
research concerning the peculiar heraldic system of the tribe; 
another purpose was the continuation of study of the use of 
peyote or “‘mescal” (a toxic plant corresponding measurably 
with hashish) in the ceremonies of the Kiowa, Apache, and 
other Indians; later in the season advantage was taken of his 
presence on the ground to make a collection representing the 
Kiowa camp-cirele for exhibition at the Tennessee Centennial 
Exposition at Nashville. 
In April Mr W J McGee visited the Muskwaki Indian settle- 
ment near Tama, Iowa, with the object of beginning a special 
study of the social organization of this little-known tribe. 
Although preliminary only, his operations were successful. 
Incidentally he collected a quantity of aboriginal material for 
the National Museum. 
Early in 1896 Mr J. B. Hatcher, of Princeton University, was 
