XXXII ANNUAL REPORT OF THE .DIRECTOR 
WORK OF MR. A. M. STEPHEN. 
Mr. A. M. Stephen was engaged during half of the fiscal 
year in collecting traditions and other matter from the Tusayan 
villages and among the Navajo. He has transmitted a number 
of valuable short papers on these topics and also on the house- 
lore of the Tusayan Indians, and has furnished descriptions 
and drawings of the ‘‘kisis” or rude temporary shelters of the 
Tusayan, comparing these with the primitive structures of the 
Navajo. 
WORK OF MR. JAMES MOONEY. 
Mr. James Mooney spent the earlier months of the fiscal 
year in making an examination of the northern division of the 
Cherokee tribe with reference to the dialectic difference be- 
tween its vocabulary and that of the main body of the same 
tribe in the Indian Territory, from which it has long been sep- 
arated, and also in studying for a like comparison their religious 
practices, traditions, social customs, and arts. The northern 
Cherokees are found to have been less affected by civilization 
than those of the south, and they can therefore be studied 
with manifest advantage. Mr. Mooney procured a large amount 
of valuable material from them, some of which has been pub- 
lished in the Seventh Annual Report of this Bureau. 
PICTOGRAPHY. 
The publications of Henry R. Schoolcraft, issued in 1853, | 
upon the pictographs of the Ojibwa give the impression that 
they were nearly as far advanced in hieroglyphic writing as 
the Egyptians were immediately before their pictorial repre- | 
sentations had become syllabic. Doubts had been entertained 
of the accuracy of this account, and it was considered to be 
the duty of the Bureau of Ethnology to resolve them. At the | 
beginning of the fiscal year, therefore, Col. Garrick Mallery 
and Mr. W. J. Hoffman, his assistant, were directed to proceed 
to Indian reservations in Minnesota and Wisconsin and study 
what might remain accessible on the subject. 
