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trilK'S, the subject of their material culture will produce 

 the first results for publication. 



After completing some special articles on ethnologic 

 topics for the closing pages of Part 2 of the Handbook 

 of American Indians, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, 

 pursued the study of the history of the tribes formerly 

 dwelling in the Susquehanna and upper Ohio valleys. 

 Progress in these researches was interrupted by the neces- 

 sity of assigning him to the editorial revision and annota- 

 tion of a collection of about 120 legends, traditions, and 

 myths of the Seneca Indians, recorded in 1884 and 1885 by 

 the late Jeremiah Curtin. At the close of the year this 

 work was far advanced, only about 150 pages of a total of 

 1,400 pages remaining to be treated. As opportunity af- 

 forded, Mr. Hewitt also resumed the preparation of his 

 sketch of the granmiar of the Iroquois for incoi-poration 

 in the Handbook of American Indian Languages. 



As in previous years, Mr. Hewitt prepared and collected 

 data for replies to numerous correspondents requesting 

 special information, particularly in regard to the Iroquois 

 and Algonquian tribes. Mr. Hewitt also had charge of 

 the important collection of 1,716 manuscripts of the bureau, 

 cataloguing new accessions and keeping a record of those 

 withdrawn in the progress of the bureau's researches. 

 During the year, 378 manuscripts were thus made use of 

 by the members of the bureau and its collaborators. Ex- 

 clusive of the numerous manuscripts prepared by the staff 

 of the bureau and by those in collaboration with it, re- 

 ferred to in this report, 12 items were added during the 

 year. These pertain to the Pawnee, Chippewa, Zuni, and 

 Tewa tribes, and relate to music, sociology, economics, and 

 linguistics. 



The beginning of the fiscal year found Dr. Truman 

 Miclielson, ethnologist, conducting ethnological and lin- 

 guistic investigations among the Piegan Indians of Mon- 

 tana, whence he proceeded to the Northern Cheyenne and 

 Northern Arapaho, thence to the Menominee of Wisconsin, 

 and finally to the Micmac of Restigouche, Canada— all 



