OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XLI 
The work of the modeling room was continued in his charge 
throughout the year. No new work was taken up, all avail- 
able labor being used in preparing a series of duplicates of 
models previously deposited in the National Museum. This 
work was continued from last year. The series is not yet com- 
pleted, but the accumulations on hand at the end of the fiscal 
year were suflicient to enable the Bureau to make a creditable 
display at the Cincinnati Exposition without withdrawing, to 
any large extent, the models deposited in the National Mu- 
seum. During the year eight models were added to the dupli- 
cate series and three other models were commenced. 
Dr. Wasuincton Marruews, Surgeon U.S. Army, continued 
work upon a grammar and dictionary of the Navajo language. 
Mr. W. NeEtson was still engaged in the preparation of his 
paper, mentioned in the last report, upon the Eskimo of north- 
ern Alaska, comprising a dictionary with notes upon the gram- 
mar of the language and also upon the myths and customs of 
the people. 
Mr. Joun N. B. Hewirr has continued the study of the 
Troquoian languages and the preparation of a Tuscarora-Eng- 
lish dictionary. He also worked upon the comparison of 
words, radicals, and terms in the Iroquoian languages with 
those in the Cherokee and in determining the prehistoric hab- 
itat of the Iroquois. 
For several years past it has been part of the work of the 
dsureau to take advantage of the frequent presence in Wash- 
ington of parties styled ‘‘delegations” from the several Indian 
tribes, for the purpose of photographing all the individuals 
composing them. These are generally the prominent men of 
the tribes represented by them, and their photographs have 
biographie and historic interest as well as anthropologic impor- 
tance. Mr. J. K. Hillers has been in charge of this branch of 
the Sore and during the last year has secured ninety-nine 
photographs of prominent Indians in both full face and profile, 
in order to exhibit to better advantage all their facial charae- 
teristics. The subjects were from the following tribes, viz: 
White Mountain Apache, 15 persons; Chiricahua Apache, 
20; Jicarilla Apache, 8; Sac and Fox, 7; Utes, 4; Shawnee, 
9; Omaha, 20; Dakota, 11; Oto and Missouri, 5. 
