AUMINISTKATIVE REPORT. XXXV 



amine the various sources of information and to incorporate 

 the latest data obtained from correspondence and from recent 

 publications, and the labor of revision was thereby materially- 

 enhanced. The memoir is printed in the Seventh Annual 

 Report of the Bureau. 



Mr H. W. Henshaw was largely occupied during the earlier 

 part of the fiscal year in the general administrative work of 

 the office. In addition to these duties, he was employed, up to 

 the middle of May, in the preparation of the tribal synonj^- 

 my, which has been described in previous reports. In this 

 work Mr Henshaw had the assistance of Mr F. W. Hodge, 

 who devoted pai-ticular attention to the Piman and Yi;man 

 linguistic stocks, as well as to the several stocks represented 

 among the Pueblo Indians. Satisfactory progress was made in 

 the accumulation of material for this work, which is recorded on 

 cards in such manner as to be either available for publication 

 at any time, or accessible for refei'ence until the work is so far 

 completed as to Avari-ant printing. The cards are arranged in 

 drawers in cases provided for the purpose. They ai"e already 

 of great and constantly increasing use, not only to the collab- 

 orators of the Bureau but to students of ethnologic and histor- 

 ical subjects from other governmental bureaus and departments. 

 In connection with the administrative work, Mr Henshaw was 

 occupied for some time in preparing the exhibit of the Bureau 

 for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. 



Colonel Garrick Mailer}-, United States Army, was occupied 

 chiefly in writing in final form a comprehensive i)aper on the 

 " Picture Writing of the American Indians," which presents the 

 result of several years of personal exploration and study of all 

 accessible material on that subject. At the close of the year 

 the manuscript and the drawings for the large number of nec- 

 essar}' illustrations had been transmitted through the Secretary 

 of the Smithsonian Institution to the Public Printer. Colonel 

 Mallery was also, during the greater part of the year, charged 

 with administrative duties and with the execution of a variety 

 of special works under the instructions of the Director. 



The office work of Mr W. H. Holmes consisted in the com- 

 pletion of papers on the pottery and shellwork of the abo- 

 rigines of the United States. A third paper was written, on tlie 



