10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY. 
and translated, with a few exceptions, 310 personal names. 
He verified a previous discovery that certain gentes have 
their own peculiar names for dogs and horses, and trans- 
lated 127 of these names for a forthcoming paper on Fox 
sociology. Doctor Michelson finished the correction of 
Jones’s Ojibwa Texts, part 2, which with part 1, previously 
corrected by him, will form the basis of a proposed sketch 
of Ojibwa grammar. During the fiscal year he also from 
time to time furnished data to answer official correspondence. 
The beginning of the fiscal year found Mr. J. P. Harring- 
ton, ethnologist, at Taos, N. Mex., engaged in the correction 
and completion of his manuscript on the Tiwa language. 
The Taos material of the late Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, which 
is of considerable bulk and great value, was also checked 
up and made more complete, especially in its linguistic 
aspects. The close genetic relationship of the Tanoan dia- 
lects of New Mexico with Kiowa is remarkable, a very large 
number of stems and affixes having practically the same 
sound, while the grammar runs parallel throughout. Certain 
subtle and unusual phonetic hardenings occurring in these 
languages make it impossible to assume anything but common 
descent from a not very remote ancestral tongue. These 
discoveries open up far-reaching speculations and problems 
with regard to the origin of the Pueblo Indians. 
In August Mr. Harrington proceeded to southern Cali- 
fornia, where he continued his studies of the Chumashan 
Indians, most of the time being devoted to the Ventureno, 
which was also the dialect most successfully studied. Dur- 
ing the course of the work the last good informant on the 
language of La Purisima died. Important information was 
recorded on the ancient customs attending birth, marriage, 
and death, and some idea was gleaned of the manner of 
conducting primitive pre-Spanish fiestas. Data on native 
foods was also obtained, including detailed descriptions of 
the preparation of acorn and other vegetal foods in this 
region, information on these processes having never before 
been recorded. For example, in the preparation of acorns 
. various species were employed, and also certain individual 
trees were noted for their preferable fruit, but the final 
