6 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
paints used by the Indians were identified chemically, 
with interesting results, specimens purchased from liv- 
ing Indians and also those taken from graves being used 
for the purpose. 
A very complete linguistic study of the ethnobotany 
of these Indians was carried out, with special attention 
to the ancient designations of the parts of the plants and 
their growth development. The designations of pollen, 
pistil, stamen, and petal vary widely as we pass from 
dialect to dialect, various words used for other concep- 
tions being extended to cover them. The same irregu- 
larity has also been apparent in comparing the nomen- 
clature of plant species. 
Mr. Harrington also read proofs of his Kiowa and 
Picuris papers, which are now in press. The paper 
on the Kiowa is important for the classification of the 
Pueblo Indian languages. In connection with the 
Picuris paper, Miss Helen H. Roberts prepared tran- 
seriptions and analyses of Picuris songs, which will con- 
stitute the most complete study in existence of the music 
of this tribe. 
Early in 1926 Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, com- 
pleted the manuscript ‘‘ Iroquoian Cosmology, Second 
Part, with Introduction and Notes.”’ 
He has devoted considerable time to work upon the 
manuscript report on the Indian tribes of the Upper 
Missouri made by Edwin Thompson Denig to the Hon. 
Isaac Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory, which 
has been under consideration for publication by the 
bureau for some time. This report has intrinsic merit, 
as it contains much ethnologic information which it is 
now impossible to obtain because of changed conditions 
in the life of the tribes mentioned in it. 
Several evenings each week during the autumn and win- 
ter Mr. Hewitt devoted to the recording of lexical and 
grammatical material in the language of the Nez Percé 
Indians of the Shahaptian linguistic stock of the Powel- 
lian classification of Amerindian languages north of Mex- 
