XIV ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
existed upon conspicuous cliffs and rocks near Lake Superior, 
at and in the vicinity of Bayfield and Ashland. 
Mr. Hoffman afterward made an examination of the ‘“pie- 
tured cave,” eight miles northeast of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, to 
obtain copies of the characters appearing there. These are rap- 
idly being destroyed by the disintegration of the rock. The 
colors employed in delineating the various figures were dark 
red and black. The figures represent human beings, deer, and 
other forms not now distinguishable. 
WORK OF MR. H. W. HENSHAW. 
Mr. H. W. Henshaw spent the months of August, Septem- 
ber, and October on the Pacific coast, engaged in the collee- 
tion of vocabularies of several Indian languages, with a view 
to their study and classification. The Umatilla Reservation 
in Oregon was first visited with the object of obtaining a com- ~ 
prehensive vocabulary of the Cayuse. Though there are 
about four hundred of these Indians on the reservation, proba- 
bly not more than six speak the Cayuse tongue. The Cayuse 
have extensively intermarried with the Umatilla, and now 
speak the language of the latter, or that of the Nez Pereé. An 
excellent Cayuse vocabulary was obtained, and at the same 
time the opportunity was embraced to secure vocabularies of 
the Umatilla and the Nez Pereé languages. His next object- 
ive pomt was the neighborhood of the San Rafael Mission, 
Marin county, California, the hope being entertained that some 
of the Indians formerly gathered at the mission would be found 
there. He learned that there were no Indians at or near 
San Rafael, but subsequently found a few on the shores of 
Tomales bay, to the north. A good vocabulary was collected 
from one of these, which, as was expected, was subsequently 
found to be related to the Moquelumnan family of the interior, 
to the southeast of San Francisco bay. Later the missions of 
Santa Cruz and Monterey were visited. At these points there 
still remain a few old Indians who retain a certain command 
of their own language, though Spanish forms their ordinary 
means of intercourse. The vocabularies obtained are sufficient 
to prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that there are two 
