XXIV ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 
fully acknowledged, will always receive proper credit, and, 
when practicable, will be published in the manner provided by 
law. The present volume contains two valuable papers by 
collaborators who are not directly connected with the Bureau. 
The report now submitted consists of three principal divi- 
sions. The first relates to the publications made during the 
fiscal year, the second to the work prosecuted in the field, 
and the third to the office work, which consists largely of the 
preparation for publication of the results of field work, with 
the corrections and additions obtained from the literature on 
the subjects discussed and by correspondence relating to them. 
PUBLICATIONS. 
The publications actually issued and distributed during the 
year were as follows: 
The Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to 
the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84. It is an imperial octavo 
volume of liii-+560 pages, illustrated by 23 plates (of which 
10 are colored) and 77 figures in the text. The official re- 
port of the Director, occupying 37 pages (pp. xvii—liii), is accom- 
panied by the following papers: 
Burial Mounds of the Northern Section of the United States, 
by Cyrus Thomas; pp. 8-119, Pls. -v1, Figs. 1-49. 
The Cherokee Nation of Indians: A Narrative of their Offi- 
cial Relations with the Colonial and Federal Governments, by 
Charles C. Royce; pp. 121-378, Pls. vi-1x, of which vi and 
1x are folding maps in a pocket at the end of the volume. 
The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony, by Dr. Wash- 
ington Matthews, U.S. Army; pp. 879-467, Pls. x—xviur, Figs. 
50-59. 
The Seminole Indians of Florida, by Clay MacCauley; pp. 
469-531, Pl. xrx, Figs. 60-77. ‘ 
The Religious Life of the Zuni Child, by Mrs. Tilly E. Steven- 
son; pp. 533-555, Pls. xx—xx1i1. 
Also the following bulletins, all 8vo: 
Bibliography of the Eskimo Language, by James C. Pilling; 
1887, pp. v+1-116, with facsimile, on page 73, of first syllabary 
