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tionary, being the second or English-Klamath part. After- 
wards he began to correct and largely rewrite the manuscript 
of the Klamath Grammar, with great improvements derived 
from the copious notes which he had made during the print- 
ing of the texts and the dictionary. At the close of the year 
portions of the manuscript had heen revised and the proof was 
corrected. 
Mr. Frank Hamiron Cusurye, on returning to- Washington 
early in May, prepared a paper on Pueblo pottery as illustra- 
tive of Zuni culture growth, which was published in the Fourth 
Annual Report of the Bureau. 
He also prepared a paper on the Ancient Province of Cibola 
and the Seven Lost Cities, in which he not only identifies 
conclusively the ‘seven cities” with seven ruins in the Zuni 
Valley, but also furnishes examples of the permanence of In- 
dian tradition, and of its value, when properly weighed, as a 
factor in ethnographic and historic research. 
Mr. Cushing reports as the most important results of his 
studies during the year those relating to the myths and folk 
tales abundantly recorded by him during previous years. By 
extended comparisons made between these folk tales and myths 
and by the use of etymologic checks and suggestions, he is 
able to trace the growth of mere ideas, or of primitive concep- 
tions of natural or biotic phenomena, of physical or animal 
functions, into the persone on the one hand and the incidents 
on the other which go to make up myths. Further, he traces 
the influence of these realizations or formulations on the wor- 
ship of the Zuni. Two examples are presented, as follows: 
(1) The circle or halo around the sun is supposed to be and 
is called by the Zuni the House of the Sun-God. This Mr 
Cushing explains by the analogies of the case. A man seeks 
shelter on the approach of a rainstorm. As the sun circle al- 
most invariably appears only with the coming of a storm, the 
Sun, like his child, the man, seeks shelter in his house, which 
the circle has thus come to be. 
The influence of this simple inference myth on the folk lore 
of the Zuni shows itself in the perpetuation, until within recent 
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