ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT LXXV 
At intervals during the year Mr Hewitt was engaged in a 
comparative study of the pronoun as used by various Indian 
tribes. The pronoun is an important element in primitive 
speech, and has received much attention from linguists and 
philologists in many parts of the world. The archives of the 
Bureau now afford a more extended basis for research con- 
cerning this element than is known to exist elsewhere, and 
this material has been used efficiently and successfully by Mr 
Hewitt in his researches. 
Although the discussion of the subject was well advanced 
at the close of the fiscal year, it was not yet in form for 
publication. 
MYTHOLOGY 
Mrs Matilda C. Stevenson continued the revision of notes 
and the final writing of manuscript for her report on the Zuni 
Indians. This elaborate report has been in preparation several 
months. In view of the great number and interest of the cere- 
monials and the significant nature of the beliefs of the Zuni 
Indians, it is thought desirable to spare no pains in making it 
as nearly exhaustive as possible, and thus all details of cere- 
monial and belief are receiving attention, necessarily at con- 
siderable expense in time. 
Mr Frank Hamilton Cushing has been engaged in inter- 
esting researches concerning the significance of the arrow in 
primitive thought, custom, and symbolism. Recent investiga- 
tions of games of divination, American and Oriental, by Mr 
Stuart Culin (with whom Mr Cushing has in some measure 
cooperated) and by other students in this country and abroad, 
have shown that among many primitive peoples games are 
conducted ceremonially rather than for amusement, and that 
the games are commonly divinatory. The researches have 
shown also that the arrow, either in itself or by symbol, is 
an essential element in such divinatory games. One of the 
results of these researches is a demonstration of the world- 
wide use of the arrow and of the existence of close analogies, 
if not homologies, in fundamental symbolism among the 
primitive peoples of several continents. The researches also 
indicate relative recency in origin of many of the games 
