ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. XXXV 



the close of the fiscal year final proofs of about half of the 

 volume Avere revised. 



From July 1 to July 10, 1889, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt was 

 engaged in collating and recording Iroquoian proper names, 

 both of persons and places, as they occur in the nan-atives of 

 the early exjjlorers of the pristine Iroquoian habitat, and of 

 the historians of the people of that stock. Afterward, up to 

 November 9, he was employed in field work. On his return 

 to the office, and until the end of the fiscal year, he was 

 engaged in translating and annotating the myths, legends, and 

 tales which he had previously collected in the field, and in 

 translating and recording them for easy reference, with the 

 object of verifying and explaining the matter so collected and 

 comparing it with the mythologic, ethnographic, and other 

 anthropologic data found in the eavlj French narratives of the 

 New World, especially in the works of Champlain, Lafitau, 

 Charlevoix, and in the Jesuit Relations. Much linguistic mate- 

 rial has been obtained from the translations of the matter 

 which Mr. Hewitt personally collected while engaged in field 

 w(n"k. 



Prof Cyrus Thomas was personally engaged during the 

 entire year in preparing his report on the field work and col- 

 lections of the preceding seven years. A paper giving the 

 archeologic localities within the mound area, together with a 

 series of accompanying maps, was completed for publication 

 as a bulletin of the Bureau, under the title "Catalogue of Pre- 

 historic Works east of the Rocky Mountains. " His final report, 

 which requires much comparison and reference as well as study 

 of the works explored and objects obtained, was written as rap- 

 idly as was consistent with proper care and due regard iVir 

 details. It will be incorporated in the Twelfth Annual Report 

 of the Bureau. 



Mr. Henry L. Reynolds, on his return from field duty, assisted 

 Prof Thomas in the preparation of that part of his report and 

 bulletin Avhich relate to the works of those archeologic districts 

 which he had visited. He then resumed the preparation of a 

 paper on the aboriginal use of metal. In May he made an 

 examination of the metallic specimens in the private and pub- 



