ADMINISTRATIVE KEPoHT XLVII 



of tlir lang-viaov of the peojjle of these vilhiges was the more 

 speedily <>aine(h liecause I had prcNioiisIy studied otlier hin- 

 gTiages of the same stock, so that although my stay here 

 was (>nl\- about two months, by hard lal)or and by the aid of 

 the Moniidu missionary 1 ol)taiiied (juite an insight into the 

 nature of the Hopi fraternities. Particularly was I impressed 

 by one of the ceremonies at Shumopavi, though 1 witnessed 

 others at ditlerent Hopi towns. 1 never returned to this study 

 of these fraternities, though I subsequently visited these pueb- 

 los; but I never forgot their existence nor neglecteil to ])rovide 

 for their inyestigation to the extent of such agencies as 1 could 

 command. 



I first sent Mr Gushing to Zuni to make a study of its inter- 

 esting people, and he lirought back a wealth of material. 



I was also the means of securing the detail of Dr Matthews 

 as medical otHcer at Fort Defiance. Dr Matthews had studied 

 at Hidatsa, and now he not only studied the language of the 

 Navaho, but he also made a study of their fraternities or reli- 

 gious cults, an investigation which again revealed his genius as 

 an ethnologist. 



Sulisequently, as Director of the Bureau of Ethnology, I 

 sent Mrs Matilda Coxe Stevenson to Zuni, and then to Sia, on 

 Jemez river. In both of these places she made a careful and 

 elaborate stud}' of the fraternities of the people. A part of the 

 material collected by her has already been pulilished, and a 

 larger part is now practically ready for the press, and in it 

 all she makes a great contribution to our knowledge of tribal 

 peoples. 



At the same time Mr J. N. B. HeAvitt, who had been an 

 assistant of IMrs Krminnie Smith, a collabctrator of the Bureau 

 among the Iroquois Indians, continued her work as an inde- 

 pendent investigator after her death. He studied the lan- 

 guage of the ))eople under great advantages, being himself an 

 Iro(piois who had obtained a good knowledge of linguistics as 

 an Engli.sh scholar. He also has studied the fraternities of the 

 lro»[Uois and has gained a wealth of knowledge about them. 



Mr James Mooney has given much attention t(» the same sub- 

 ject while studying the Cherokee, and especially while collect- 

 iuii' the material for liis volume on the Cihost-dance reliiiion. 



