OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XXXVII 
Mr. J. Owen Dorsey was engaged from July to December, 
1887, in translating the Teton texts of Mr. George Bushotter, 
a Dakotan, who was employed under his direction. This col- 
lection consists of myths, legends, historical papers, an auto- 
biography, accounts of games, folk-lore, and epistles, amount- 
ing to two hundred and fifty-eight textual manuscripts. This 
joint work was continued until the following December, when 
Mr. Bushotter’s employment ceased, leaving one hundred and 
twenty-nine texts to be translated. Mr. Dorsey then con- 
tinued the work alone until April 18, 1888, when another Da- 
kotan, Mr. John Bruyier, of Cheyenne River agency, began 
to revise and interpret the Teton texts, making many correc- 
tions in the, originals and supplying important parts omitted 
by Bushotter. Mr. Bruyier also furnished Mr. Dorsey with 
many examples of the Teton as spoken at the Cheyenne River 
reservation, which showed that it differed considerably from 
that spoken at the Lower Brilé and Pine Ridge reservations. 
He also wrote new versions of several myths, continuing his 
work until June 30, 1888. 
During the autumn of 1887, Mr. Dorsey completed his work 
on the Siouan, Caddoan, Athapascan, Takilman, Kusan, and 
Yakonan cards for the Indian synonymy. He also prepared 
nearly four hundred type-written foolseap pages of Qegiha 
epistles, legends, and other texts, which constitute an important 
addition to those published in Contributions to North Amer- 
ican Ethnology, vol. v1, Part 1. He also transliterated on 
slips in alphabetic order his Winnebago material, obtained in 
1878~79, collating it with the additional material obtained in 
1886. This contains fully four thousand entries. He gave 
much attention to the Catawba language, collating parts of a 
recent vocabulary which had been procured by Mr. Gatschet 
with all others which were accessible. 
Mr. Jeremran Currry contributed to the Indian synonymy 
with reference to several tribes in Oregon and California and 
devoted much study to the large number of myths obtained 
by him from the same tribes ; also to those of the Iroquois. 
Mr. James C. PILuine continued throughout the year to give 
a portion of his time to the preparation of the bibliographies 
