XL REPOET OP THE RUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. 



furnished a list of several hundred linguistic and sociologic 

 questions to be used among Indian tribes. These questions 

 were in addition to those contained in the second edition of 

 the Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages, and were 

 based ou original investigations made by llr Dorsey among 

 the Siouan tribes He prepared for publication the follow- 

 ing articles : Siouan ( hiomatopes (sound-roots), illustrated by 

 charts; The Social Organization of Siouan Tribes, illustrated 

 by figures consisting chiefly of material gained by himself 

 from the Dakota tribes, the Omaha, Ponka, Kwapa, Osage, 

 Kansa, Iowa, Oto, Missouri, Winnebago, and Tutelo; Nani- 

 bozhu in Siouan Mythology ; Games of Teton Dakota Children 

 (translatt^d and arranged from the original Teton manuscript 

 in the Bushotter collection of the Bureau of Ethnology). He 

 also prepared a paper on Omaha Dwellings, Furniture, and 

 Implements, which accompanies this report. 



After his return from Louisiana Mr Dorsey devoted most of 

 his time to the arrangement of the material collected in his 

 Biloxi note-books. He prepared a Biloxi-English dictionary 

 of 3,183 words on about 7,000 slips in alphabetic order. He 

 arranged the Biloxi texts for publication, adding to the myths 

 (with their interlinear and free English translations and criti- 

 cal notes) a list of several hundred Biloxi phrases. In his 

 article on the Biloxi kinship system, he gave 53 kinship 

 groups, of which number only 27 have their counterparts in 

 the Dakota, (/!!egiha, and other Siouan languages of the Mis- 

 souri valley. The elaboration of all the Biloxi material was 

 not completed at the end of the fiscal year. 



Mr Albert S. Gatschet assisted in augmenting and improving 

 the data for the tribal synonymy, extracting material from a 

 niunber of books and original reports especially referring to 

 southern and southwestern Indians. His main work during 

 the year was directed toward extracting and arranging some 

 of the more extensive vocabularies made by him previously in 

 the field. After completing the Tonkawe of Texas, he carded 

 each word of the Shawano and Creek languages obtained by 

 him, copied the historical and legendary texts of both, and 

 extracted the lexic and grammatic elements from them to serve 



