ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT XXV 



I'ecorcled recently by Mr McGee (and us in-evionsly ob- 

 tained from an expatriated Seri man at Hermosillo by 

 M Pinart, Commissioner Bartlett, and SeQor Tenochio) , 

 with the Yuman, Piman, and other southwestern dialects 

 recorded by various explorers. For a time the language 

 of the Sei"i was supposed to be related to the tongues of 

 the Yiiman stock; but Mr Hewitt's exhaustive study of 

 the extensive body of material now preserved in the 

 Bureau archives seems to demonstrate the absence of such 

 relation, and to indicate that the language of the tribe 

 represents a distinct stock. Accordingly the classifica- 

 tion of Orozco y Berra and other Mexican scholars of the 

 middle of the century is revived ; and in conformity with 

 the principles of nomenclature and classification an- 

 nounced in the Seventh Annual Report, the definition of 

 the language, dialects, and tribes is as follows: 



Stock Dialects and tribes 



fSeri (extant). 

 ^ ■ JTepoka (recently extinct). 



iGuayma (long extinct). 

 lUpanguayma (long extinct). 



In the course of his stay in the Hopi village, Dr Fewkes 

 was so fortunate as to obtain copies of a series of paintings 

 representing the tribal pantheon. The series comprises 

 some four hundred representations, mostly on separate 

 sheets ; the pictures partake of the characteristics of the 

 petroglyphs and calendric inscriptions such as those 

 described by the late Colonel Mallery ; they also present 

 suggestive similarities to the codices of more southerly 

 regions. The entire series, reproduced in facsimile, is 

 incorporated in another part of this report. 



One of the best known contributions to American abo- 

 riginal linguistics is the Eliot Bible, published in the Natick 

 language in 1G68 and 1G85. This contribution was supple- 

 mented in a highly notable way during the present century 

 through the labors of the late James Hammond Truml)ull, 

 who compiled from the Bible, with the aid of other soui-ces 

 of information at his command, a vocabulary of the Natick 



