XXX ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
WORK OF MR. H. W. HENSHAW. 
During the months of October and November, 1883, Mr, 
Henry W. Henshaw was occupied in linguistic researches in 
Nevada and California. 
The Washo tribe was found to number about three hundred, 
with its center in the neighborhood of Carson, Nev., and a 
vocabulary of the language was obtained according to the 
method prescribed in the Introduction to the Study of In- 
dian Languages. From the fragmentary vocabularies of this 
tongue before accessible the Washo had been supposed to be 
the sole representative of a linguistic stock, a supposition which 
the present vocabulary sustains. 
The Panamint Indians, whose language had before been un- 
known, were then visited and a similar vocabulary was ob- 
tained From it, this tribe is ascertained to belong to the Sho- 
shonian stock of languages. — - 
Notwithstanding the popular belief that the Panamint tribe 
is on the verge of extinction, a census obtained from an intel- 
ligent English-speaking woman of the tribe shows their num- 
ber, by actual count of individuals known to her, to be 106, 
there being in her opinion about 50 more with whom she was 
unacquainted, making a total of about 156. 
These Indians live about the various mining camps and 
towns in the neighborhood of Death and Panamint Valleys, 
Inyo County, California. Their tribal cohesion is lost and 
their lives are parasitic, mainly dependent upon the bounty of 
the white citizens. Their ultimate extinction therefore seems 
impending. 
WORK OF DR. WASHINGTON MATTHEWS,-U. S. A. 
Dr. Washington Matthews, assistant surgeon U.S. A., while 
on military duty at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, continued dur- 
ing the entire year his collection of material for a grammar and 
dictionary of the Navajo language, and also obtained informa- 
tion, for future publication, regarding the ceremonies, myths, 
and folk lore of that tribe. An important paper was prepared 
