ADMINISTKATIVK REPORT XLIX 



to tlie Cyclopedia, and dnrino- the vemainder of the fiscal year 

 he was employed in collecting' and arrang-ing- material relating 

 to the tribes of the Algonquian stock. The character of this 

 Cyclopedia was set forth fully in the last re])()rt. 



During the earlier part of the year Dr Thomas revised and 

 brought up to date the Royce memoir on treaties with the 

 Indian tribes relating to the cession of lands (also described 

 in the last report). The task proved greater than had l)een 

 anticipated, since extended research was required for bringing- 

 the work to date, and since this necessitated the reconstruction 

 of several of the maps. The laborii)us work was carried for- 

 ward energetically by Dr Thomas, and the requisite additions 

 to and modifications in the schedule were made, the maps 

 were prepared, and an introductory and explanatory cha})ter 

 was written. The work was completed early in April, and 

 was prepared for transmission to the Public Printer for 

 issue as volume viii of the Contributions to North American 

 Ethnology, when on examination of the statutes it was found 

 that the ^^ublic printing law approved January 12, 1895, seems 

 to terminate that series. Accordingly, the document was lield 

 for incorporation in the eighteenth annual report. 



In the early part of the year Mr James Moouey was 

 employed in the field in researches among the Kiowa and 

 Kiowa Apache Indians of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. 

 One of his lines of research related to the camping circle of 

 the combined Kiowa and Kiowa Apache group, in which 

 the tents are arranged in a certain definite order expressing the 

 social organization and conveying other symbolic meanings; 

 his studies extended also to the patriarchial shields attached to 

 the tents, and to the drawings and paintings by which both 

 shields and tents are decorated. He found that all of these 

 decorations are symbolic, and collectively represent a highly 

 elaborate system of heraldry, and most of his time in the field 

 was devoted to traciiag the ramifications and interpreting the 

 details of the heraldic system. Special attention, too, was 

 given to the calendars, or "winter counts," of which several 

 were found among these Indians. These calendars, which 

 represent the beginning of writing, are long-continued records 



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