XLII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



burial customs and osteologic remains of the nearly extinct 

 tribe of Songish Indians. 



At Port Townsend sketches were obtained of Thlinkit 

 ivory and wood carvings, clearly indicating the adoption by 

 that tribe of Haida art designs. Here, too, many Indians of 

 British American tribes were met on their way south to work 

 in the Puyallup hop fields, notable among which was a large 

 number of Haida, whose persons were examined for the purpose 

 of copying the numerous and varied tattoo designs with which 

 they were profusely decorated. Interpretations of many of 

 these characters were obtained from the persons bearing them, 

 as well as from the chief artist of the tribe, together with con- 

 cise descriptions of the methods and customs in connection 

 with tattooing and the materials used. Drawings were made 

 of a collection of Eskimo pictographs and ivory carvings at 

 the museum of the Alaska Commercial Company and the Cali- 

 fornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal. 



At Santa Barbara, Cal., Dr. Hoffman discovered some painted 

 pictographs and examined a number which have not yet been 

 published. In several private collections at this place were 

 found interesting relics of the Indians formerly inhabiting Santa 

 Cruz island, the most important of which was a steatite cup 

 containing earthy coloring matter and pricking instruments of 

 bone, which had evidently been used in tattooing. Painted 

 pictographs were also visited in the Azuza canon, twenty-five 

 miles noi'theast of Los Angeles. 



At Tule Indian Agency, in the deep valleys on the west- 

 ern slope of the Sierra Nevada, sketches of pictographs were 

 made in continuation of work accomplished there two years 

 before. Vocabularies were also obtained from the Waitchumni 

 Indians here located, as well as from the few remaining Santa 

 Barbara Indians at Cathedral Oaks, Santa Barbara county, 

 Cal. By far the greatest amount of pictographic material was 

 collected in Owen's valley, California, where series of petro- 

 glyphs are scattered over an arid, sandy desert, the extremes 

 of which are more than twenty miles apart. 



