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nieut of Kansa tallies of a similar character. He continued 

 work on a monograph relating to Indian personal names, and 

 completed the following lists, in which the Indian names pre- 

 cede their English meanings: Winnebago, 383 names; Iowa, 

 Oto, and j\Iissouri, 520; Kwapa, 15, and Kansa, 604. He 

 finished the preparation of his texts in the (/liegiha language, 

 now published as volume vi of Contributions to North Ameri- 

 can Ethnology, and connected most of the proofs for the 

 volume. He finished a collection of other Omaha and Ponka 

 letters for publication as a bulletin of the Bureau. He began 

 a paper entitled "A Study of Siouan Cults," for which over 

 forty colored illustrations were prepared by Indians under his 

 direction. It treats of the cults of the Omaha, Ponka, Kansa, 

 Osage, jjCiwere, Iowa, Oto, Missouri, Winnebago, Dakota, 

 Assiniboin, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sapona tribes. This paper 

 appears in the present volume. From September to December, 

 1889, he was occupied in procuring from George Miller, an 

 Omaha who came to Washington for the purpose, additional 

 myths, legends, letters, folklore, and sociologic material, 

 grammatic notes, and corrections of dictionary entries, besides 

 genealogical tables arranged according to the sub-gentes as 

 well as the gentes of the Omaha tribe. 



Mr. Albert S. Gatschet during the whole year was engaged 

 in office work. He finished his last draft of the "Klamath 

 Grammar," a monograph on a highly interesting aboriginal 

 language of southwestern Oregon, making numerous additions 

 and appendices, as follows: Idioms and dialectic differences 

 in the language; colloquial form of the language; syntactic 

 examples; complex synonymous terms, and roots with their 

 derivatives. The typograjihic work on the grammar was 

 terminated, the proofs and revises having all been read by 

 the author. The last portion of the entire work, being the 

 "Ethnographic Sketch of the Klamath People," was then 

 rewritten from earlier notes with reference to the best topo- 

 graphic and historical materials obtainable. Mr. Gatschet also 

 di-ew for publication a map of the headwaters of Klamath river, 

 the home of the tribes, on a scale of 15 miles to the inch, to 

 form the frontispiece to the work. The whole constitutes 



