ADMINISTRATIVE KEPOET. XXXIX 



and map. This part includes an ethnographic sketch of the 

 KUimath people, texts of the Klamath language with explana- 

 tory notes, and a grammar of the Klamath language. The 

 second part comprises the Klamath-English and English- 

 Klamath dictionaries. It was in type at the end of the last 

 fiscal year, but was not then received from the Public Printer. 

 (2) Bibliographic notes on Eliot's Indian Bible and on his 

 other translations and works in the Indian language of Massa- 

 chusetts. This is an abstract from a Bibliogi'aphy of the 

 Algonquian Languages, by James Constantine Pilling, and 

 forms pages 127-184 of the Algonquian Bibliography, which 

 has since been issued. As separately issued these "Notes" 

 constitute a royal octavo pamphlet of 58 separately numbered 

 pages. Two hundred and fifty copies were printed and issued. 



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ACOOMPANYING PAPER ON THE MOUND EXPLO- 

 RATIONS OF THE BUREAU 



In 1858, 1851), and 1860 the present Director of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology was engaged in examining prehistoric mounds 

 in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. At that time it was 

 the prevailing opinion among archeologists that the mounds 

 and other aboriginal earthworks of the eastern half of the 

 United States are vestiges of a people more ancient and more 

 advanced in culture than the tribes of Indians • that occupied 

 the continent at the time of the discovery by Columbus. 

 Sharing these opinions, he began the preparation of a catalogue 

 of mound-builders' arts, in the progress of which work many 

 mounds were visited and a few excavated, and the catalogue 

 grew from observations thus made in the field and from the 

 examination of collections in various parts of the country. In 

 the fall of 1859 certain mounds on the shore of Lake Peoria, 

 in Illinois, were examined and skeletons were found in one of 

 the largest, and with them works of art of various materials, 

 especially of stone and pottery. At the bottom, with some 

 articles of pottery, shells, stone implements, etc., an ornament 

 was found made of copper skillfully cut in imitation of a 

 spread eagle, with head turned to one side. Lying by the side 

 of this were a few glass beads. These challenged attention, 



