XXXII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
The importance of this undertaking, the manner in which it is 
being executed, and the difficulties attending it were detailed 
in the last annual report. It was also there explained that 
the determination and classification of the linguistic families 
and stocks is an indispensable preliminary in this work. 
Col. Garrick Matiery continued to be engaged during 
the year in the study of sign language among the North Amer- 
ican Indians compared with that among other peoples and 
among deaf mutes—or, more generally, the gesture speech of 
man—with the purpose of publishing a monograph on that 
subject. He also prepared a paper on the pictographs of the 
North American Indians, designed to be an introduction to the 
study of pictographs which has been published in the Fourth 
Annual Report of the Bureau. In the whole of this work he 
was assisted, particularly in the illustrations, by Dr. W. J. 
Hoffman. 
Mrs. Erminnie A. Smita, on returning from the field, was 
engaged upon special studies in several Iroquoian dialects. 
The Mohawk words previously translated from the dictionary 
of Father Marcoux were all recopied and their literal meanings 
were given, as were also over 6,000 words in the Tuscaroré 
dialect. 
She also prepared several studies upon pronouns and other 
parts of speech for use in the introduction to her Iroquoian 
Dictionary, work upon which was continued. 
Rev. J. Owen Dorsey was engaged during the year on an 
English-Winnebago vocabulary; a Kwapa-English vocabu- 
lary; Osage and Kansa texts, local and personal names; and 
the social organization of the Dakota. A paper on Kansa 
mourning and war customs, with charts, was prepared; also, 
one on the migrations of Siouan tribes, with a map and charts. 
He examined and criticised a manuscript dictionary of the 
Musquito language. He also made 3,552 entries for an Osage- 
English Dictionary, 4,970 entries for a Kansa-English Die- 
tionary, and over 9,000 entries (from A to Ma) for a (legiha- 
English Dictionary. 
Mr. Apert 8S. GatscHeT was engaged during the first 
months of the fiscal year in reading proof of his Klamath Diec- 
