ADMINISTRATIVE KEPORT XXIII 



ill preparation for prospective reports, while Mr Hodge 

 is incorporating the data relating to the clans and gentes 

 of the Pneblo peoples in a Cyclopedia of Native Tribes. 



During his stay among the Hopi, Dr Fewkes' attention 

 was directed to the interrelation between the tribesmen 

 and certain feral creatures, notably eagles. The eagles 

 are of much consequence to the folk, chiefly as a source 

 of feathers, which are extensively used in ceremonies for 

 symbolic representation ; and it appears from the recent 

 observations that particular clans claim and exercise a 

 sort of collective ownership in certain families of eagles, 

 perhaps homing in distant mountains ; and that this right 

 is commonly recognized by other clans, and even by 

 neighboring tribes. Thus the relation affords a striking 

 example of that condition of toleration between animals 

 and men which normally precedes domestication, and 

 forms the first step in zooculture, as has been set forth in 

 preceding reports. These relations, together with the 

 methods of capture, have been described in a preliminary 

 paper. 



Work in Philology 



During the later months of the fiscal year the Director 

 resumed the synthesis of the native American languages, 

 and the comparison of these with other tongues, with the 

 view of defining the principles of philology on a compre- 

 hensive basis. The task was one of magnitude; the 

 records in the Bureau archives comprise more or less 

 complete vocabularies and grammars of several hundred 

 dialects, representing the sixty or more linguistic stocks 

 of North America; and the study necessarily extended 

 not only over this material but over a considerable part of 

 the published records of other languages, both primitive 

 and advanced; it was, however, completed in time for 

 publication in the last report. 



In connection with the general linguistic researches it 

 was deemed necessary to extend the classification of 

 stocks southward over Mexico and Central America ; and 

 this extension was undertaken with the aid of Dr Cyrus 



