ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN 



ETHNOLOGY 



First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secre- 

 tary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, by J. W. Powell, 

 director, (Vignette.) Washington, Government Printing Office, 

 1881. 



Roy. 8°. XXXV, 603 p., 347 fig. (incl. 54 pi.), map. 



Report of the director. P. xi-xxxiii. 



On the Evolution of Language, as Exhibited in the Specialization of the 

 Grammatic Processes, the Differentiation of the Parts of Speech, and the 

 Integration of tiie Sentence; from a Study of Indian Languages, by J. W. 

 Powell. P. 1-16. 



Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians, by J. W. Powell. 

 P. 17-56. 



Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society, by J. W. Powell. 

 P. 57-69. 



On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data, by J. W. Powell. 

 P. 71-86. 



A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuarj- Customs of the North 

 American Indians, by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, acting assistant surgeon, U. S. 

 Army. P. 87-203. 



Studies in Central American Picture-Writing, by Edward S. Holden, pro- 

 fessor of mathematics, U. S. Naval Observatory. P. 205-245. 



Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by 

 Those in the State of Indiana, by C. C. Royce. P. 247-262. 



Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among 

 Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes, by Garrick Mallery. P. 263-552. 



Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Eth- 

 nology, by James C. PiUing. P. 553-577. 



Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages. From the 

 manuscripts of Messers J. Owen Dorsey, A. S. Gatschet, and S. R. Riggs. 

 P. 579-589. 



Index. 



Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, by J. W. Powell, 

 director. (Vignette.) Washington, Government Printing Office, 

 1883 (1884). 



Roy. 8". xxxvii, 477 p., 77 pi., fig. 1-35, 347-714 (382 of these 

 forming 98 pi.), 2 maps. 



Report of the director. P. xv-xxxvii. 



Zuni Fetiches, by Frank Hamilton Gushing. P. 3-45. 



Myths of the Iroquois, by Erminnie A. Smith. P. 47-116. 



Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley, by Henry W. 



Henshaw. P. 117-166. 

 Navajo Siversmiths, by Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. Army. P. 167-178. 

 Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New 



Mexico and Arizona in 1879, by James Stevenson. P. 307-422. 



Index. 



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