ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT. XXXV 



in the arrano-ement of the data and sketches relating' to the 

 pictography and gesture language of the North American 

 Indians, obtained by hiin during previous field seasons, to be 

 incorporated in the woi-ks of Col. Mallery on those topics. 



Mr. James Mooney devoted the earlier part of the fiscal 

 year to the elaboration of liis Cherokee material, the lirst 

 results of which, under the title of "Sacred Formulas of the 

 Cherokees," has appeared in the Seventh Annual Report of 

 the Bureau. He also prepared a short descriptive catalogue 

 of his pre\nous ethnologic collections from the Cherokee and 

 began work on a paper indicating that the southern Atlantic 

 states were formerly occupied by a number of Siouau tribes, 

 if, indeed, that region was not the original home of the Siouau 

 stock. In connection with this investigation, a closer study 

 of the linguistic material from the Catawban tribes of Carolina 

 confirms the statement, which has already been published by 

 this Bureau, that they belong to the Siouan family. Mr. 

 Mooney also at intervals assisted in work on the Dictionary of 

 Tribal Synonymy. 



Mr. James C. Pilling continued his bibliographic work 

 throughout the fiscal year. At the date of the hist report he 

 was engaged in reading proof of the bibliography of the 

 Algonquian languages. The volume has been published, com- 

 prising 614 pages and 82 full-page illustrations, chiefly fac- 

 similes of the title-pages of rare books, syllabaries, and other 

 interesting bibliographic features. Among the special articles 

 in it is one relating to the labors of the "Apostle" Eliot among 

 the Indians of Massachusetts, and more especially to his 

 linguistic work. As this author was the earliest and the most 

 noted of those engaged in this line of research, considerable 

 space was devoted to him and his labors, and it was thought 

 proper to issue the article in separate form. It is noted below 

 under the heading of publications. Mr. Pilling has terminated 

 Iiis connection with the U. S. Geological Survey, and is now 

 associated exclusively with the Bureau of Ethnology, his ap- 

 pointment taking effect May 1, 1891. 



Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt has continued his work on the Tuskarora 

 dictionary, the Tuskarora-English part being well advanced 



