ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 7 
ico. In this work Mr. Hewitt was assisted by Mr. Mark 
Phinney, an intelligent and well-educated young man of 
that tribe, who is employed in the Office of Indian Affairs 
of the Interior Department. 
This work was undertaken primarily to obtain ampler 
and more accurate linguistic material in this language and 
further to elucidate and contirm certain fundamental con- 
clusions reached by Mr. Hewitt in 1894 in regard to the 
genetic linguistic relationship of three contiguous north- 
western linguistic stocks—namely, the Shahaptian, the 
Waiilatpuan, and the Lutuamian—of the Powellian clas- 
sification. ‘These fundamental conclusions were embodied 
in two formal reports to the director of the bureau, having 
been prepared for his especial use and at his behest, as 
appears in the administrative report of the director for 
1894. He approved the findings of both reports, although 
the last was not delivered until after the administrative 
report had been written; he has been verbally informed of 
what the conclusions would be. The first of these reports 
showed genetic linguistic relationship between the Sha- 
haptian and the Waiilatpuan linguistic stocks of the Pow- 
ellian classification; and the second showed, likewise, 
genetic linguistic relationship between the Lutuamian 
stock of languages and the new group, Shahaptian- 
Waiilatpuan, established by the findings of the first report. 
Thus these two formal reports brought together into one 
linguistic stock the Shahaptian, the Waiilatpuan, and the 
Lutuamian lingustic stocks of the Powellian classification. 
To this new grouping of languages was _ tentatively 
assigned the name Shapwailutan, an artificial term made 
up of the initial syllables of the names of the three com- 
bined stocks. Mr. Hewitt has since then found no reason 
to change his conclusions in these two reports, and his 
work with Mr. Phinney has only strengthened his findings. 
As custodian of manuscripts, Mr. Hewitt reports that, 
with the exception of a number of cross-references, the 
cataloguing of the manuscripts had been completed at the 
close of the fiscal year, and that the cataloguing of the 
