﻿SEVENTH 
  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  

  

  BUREAU 
  OF 
  ETHNOLOGY. 
  

  

  By 
  J. 
  W. 
  Powell, 
  Director. 
  

  

  INTRODUCTION. 
  

  

  The 
  prosecution 
  of 
  ethnologic 
  researches 
  among 
  the 
  North 
  

   American 
  Indians, 
  in 
  accordance 
  with 
  act 
  of 
  Congress, 
  was 
  

   continued 
  during 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  1885-86. 
  

  

  The 
  general 
  plan 
  upon 
  which 
  the 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  prosecuted 
  

   in 
  former 
  years, 
  and 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  explained 
  in 
  earlier 
  re- 
  

   ports, 
  was 
  continued 
  in 
  operation. 
  

  

  General 
  lines 
  of 
  investigation 
  were 
  indicated 
  by 
  the 
  Di- 
  

   rector, 
  and 
  the 
  details 
  intrusted 
  to 
  selected 
  persons 
  trained 
  in 
  

   their 
  several 
  pursuits, 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  whose 
  labors 
  are 
  published 
  

   from 
  time 
  to 
  time 
  in 
  the 
  manner 
  provided 
  for 
  by 
  law. 
  A 
  

   brief 
  statement 
  of 
  the 
  work 
  upon 
  which 
  each 
  of 
  these 
  special 
  

   students 
  was 
  engaged 
  during 
  the 
  year, 
  with 
  its 
  condensed 
  re- 
  

   sult, 
  is 
  presented 
  below. 
  This, 
  however, 
  does 
  not 
  specify 
  in 
  

   detail 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  studies 
  undertaken 
  or 
  services 
  rendered 
  by 
  

   them, 
  as 
  particular 
  lines 
  of 
  research 
  have 
  been 
  temporarily 
  

   suspended 
  in 
  order 
  to 
  accomplish 
  immediately 
  objects 
  regarded 
  

   as 
  of 
  superior 
  importance. 
  From 
  this 
  cause 
  the 
  publication 
  of 
  

   several 
  treatises 
  and 
  monographs 
  has 
  been 
  delayed, 
  although 
  

   in 
  some 
  instances 
  they 
  have 
  been 
  heretofore 
  reported 
  as 
  sub- 
  

   stantially 
  completed, 
  and, 
  indeed, 
  as 
  partly 
  in 
  type. 
  

  

  The 
  present 
  opportunity 
  is 
  used 
  to 
  invite 
  and 
  urge 
  again 
  the 
  

   assistance 
  of 
  explorers, 
  writers, 
  and 
  students, 
  who 
  are 
  not 
  and 
  

  

  