XXXIV REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. 



rearranging' all the material in order to make it ready for j^rint- 

 ing. From December, 1890, to March, 1891, with the aid of a 

 Kwapa delegate in Washington, he collected much information 

 respecting the Kwapa (or Quapaw) tribe, a people closely related 

 to the Omaha and Ponka, from whom they separated prior to 

 1540. After March, 1891, he elliborated that material, which 

 consists of about 150 personal names, arranged according to 

 sex and gens, with the meaning of the name whenever attain- 

 able, together with over 3,500 entries for a Kwapa-English 

 dictionary, and several epistles and myths with grammatic and 

 sociologic notes. This material was found to be of great assist- 

 ance to him in the preparation of the (|!!egiha-English dictionary 

 and other papers. 



He also prepared for publication the following papers : A 

 study of Siouan cults, illustrated with numerous sketches col- 

 ored by Indians, which is incorporated in the Eleventh Annual 

 Report; Omaha and Ponka letters, containing the (pegiha 

 epistles, which could nf»t be published in Contributions to 

 North American Ethnology, Vol. vi; aii illustrated paper on 

 Omaha dwellings, furniture, and implements; and a paper on 

 the social organization of the Siouan tribes. 



Mr. Albert S. Gatschet during the liscal year was en- 

 gaged in office work only. After completing the manuscript 

 of the Ethnographic Sketch of his work, "The Klamath Indians 

 of Southwestern Oregon," which was published during the year 

 as Vol. ii; Part i, of Contril)utions to North Aniei-ican Ethnology, 

 he read the proof of it, which occupied him until October, 1890. 

 Later he was engaged in extracting, copying, and carding the 

 vocabularies and other matter collected by him during the past 

 ten years concerning the Tonkawe, the Hitchiti, the Shawano, 

 Powhatan, and Creek Indians. A large number of personal, 

 tribal, and local names of Indian origin were collected and 

 partly explained in the intervals of the above work. 



Dr. W. J. Hoffman continued the arrangement and classifi- 

 cation of material relating to the society of shamans of the 

 Ojibwa Indians, which, together wnth numerous illustrations, 

 was prepared for publication, and forms part of the Seventh 

 Annual Report of the Bureau. Dr. Hoffman was also engaged 



