ADMINISTKATIVE REPORT. XXXIII 



volume II, parts 1 and 2 of Coutributious to North American 

 Ethnology, entitled "The Klamath Indians of Southwestern 

 Oregon." 



Mr. Jeremiah (Jurtin was engaged from January 10 to 

 June 30, 1890, in arranging the myth material collected by 

 him in the field and in copying vocabularies. The Hupa, 

 Quoratean, and Wishoskan vocabularies were finished and the 

 Yanan connnenced. 



The office work of Dr. W. J. Hoffman consisted chiefly in 

 arranging the material gathered by him during the preceding 

 three field seasons, and in preparing for publication the work 

 entitled The Mide'wiAvin, or Grand Medicine Society of the 

 Ojibwa, which appears in the Seventh Annual Report of the 

 Bureau. During the first three months of the year 1890 a 

 number of Menomoni Indians were at Washington on business 

 connected with their tribe, and during that time Dr. Hoffman 

 obtained from them a collection of facts relating to their 

 mythology, social organization and government, and the gen- 

 tile system and division of gens into phratries, together with 

 many facts relating to theMitii'wit, or Grand Medicine Society 

 of this tribe. These are interesting and valuable, as some 

 portions of the ritual explain doubtful parts of the Ojibwa 

 phraseology, and vice versa, although the two societies of the 

 Ojibwa and the Menomoni differ greatly in the di-araatized 

 portion of the forms of initiation. 



^Ir. James Mooney, on his return from the field in Novem- 

 ber, eng'aoed in the elaboration of the Cherokee formulas 

 obtained. Two hundred of these formulas, or about one-third 

 of the whole numljer, were translated. In each case the 

 transliteration from the original manuscript in Cherokee char- 

 acters is given first, then follows a translation following the 

 idiom and spirit of the original as closely as possible, and, 

 finally, an explanation of the medicine and ceremonies used 

 and the underlying theor}-. About half of the whole number 

 relate to medicine. The others deal with love, war, self- 

 protection, the ball play, agriculture, and life conjuring. A 

 preliminary paper on the subject, entitled "The Sacred For- 

 midas of the Cherokees," is iucorporateil in the Seventh Annual 



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