XXXVI ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
families of the North American Indians in the territory north 
of Mexico. When not engaged in this work or in executive 
duties he continued the preparation of a dictionary of the 
nature of a synonymy of tribal names of North American In- 
dians, the genet ral character and object of which have been 
set forth in a former report. While in general charge of that 
division of the office work, he specially attended to the Sahap- 
tinian, Salishan, Chemakuman, Chinookan, and several other 
linguistic stocks of the Pacific slope. 
Mr. Atsert 8. GarscHeT was engaged during the first five 
months of the year in digesting the results of his recent trip to 
Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico, and utilizing them in the com- 
pilation of the “adian tribal synonymy in course of prepara- 
tion by the Bureau. His designated share in that work com- 
prised the families of the southern Indians from the Rio Grande 
to the Atlantic seaboard of Florida, namely, the stocks of the 
Natchez, Atakapa, Shetimasha, Tonkawé, Pakawa (otherwise 
known under the vague designation of ‘ Coahuilteco or Te- 
jano”), Tonica, Yuchi, Timucua, and—most important of them 
all—the Mask6éki. His work of correlating for the synonymy 
the information gained concerning these tribes was completed, 
though some important tribes can not be classified linguis- 
tic cally, e. g., the extinct Koroas and Pascagoulas, on account of 
the abseiic e,in the documents of early chroniclers, of all in- 
formation relating to them. The Adi-i, classed by Gallatin 
as a distinct family, is believed by Mx. Gatschet to be affiliated 
with the Caddoan stock as a dialect distantly related to Yatassi 
and Caddo proper. 
After concluding his labors on the tribal synonymy, Mr. 
Gatschet resumed work on the grammar of the Klamath lan- 
guage of southwestern Oregon. He combined all the results 
of his recent studies of both dialects, the northern and the 
southern, with the facts previously acquired by him and com- 
posed a treatise on the morphology of the language. This 
was rewritten by him three times in order to secure complete- 
ness and accuracy. The “phonetics” and the chapters on 
radicals and on prefixion were stereotyped. 
