ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXXIII 



The languages of this district give promise of special 

 importance in their bearing on questions of tribal migra- 

 tions and intertribal relations. Mr S wanton has not yet 

 taken up the preparation of his material for publication. 

 The work on the Diccionario de Motul, described in the 

 last report, is still under way. A considerable portion of 

 the manuscript in Maya and Spanish was transcribed by 

 Miss Jessie E. Thomas during the year, and Senor 

 Audomaro Molina, of Merida, Yucatan, is engaged in fur- 

 nishing an English translation and in extending the 

 vocabulary through personal acquaintance with the Maya 

 tongue. 



Work in Sophiology 



As has been indicated by the contents of previous 

 reports, the Director has for some years been engaged 

 in developing a system of anthropologic classification 

 designed primarily to serve as a basis for the researches 

 in the Bureau, though it is hoped that the system will be 

 of use to the students of the Science of Man throughout 

 the world. It was the partial development of this system 

 that led first to discrimination of the human activities 

 and later to the definition of the five groups of activities 

 observed in the researches and described in recent reports. 

 During the last five years several of the groui^s or cate- 

 gories of activities have been formulated and character- 

 ized with some degree of fullness. The treatment began 

 with the arts, or esthetic activities, and proceeded to the 

 industries, or technical activities, and thence to the insti- 

 tutions expressing social activities. During the past year 

 the characterization was extended to languages, or the 

 activities designed for expression, as already set forth, 

 and toward the end of the year the last and most complex 

 of the activital groups, that is, the sophic activities 

 involved in opinion, together with myth, faith, and the 

 more refined and ennobling products of mentation, was 

 taken up. Fair progress was made in the analytical 

 work. 



