42 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



fiscal year, when, as has been stated, Mr. Hodge was again assigned to the task. In 

 accordance with the Secretary's wish, the scope of the work was enlai'ged to inchide 

 not only descriptions of the Indian stocks, confederacies, tribes, subtribes, phratries, 

 bands, clans, gentes, and settlements, as previously i)lanned, ])ut also biographies of 

 the most noted Indians, sketches of the native manners, arts, and customs, and a list 

 of Indian words incorporated into the English language. 



The facilities of the Bureau were immediately made available, most of the scientific 

 corps devoting at least a part of their time to the work, while the services of others 

 not officially connected with the Bureau were enlisted in directions in which their 

 special knowledge would be adv.antageous. To this end the Athapascan stock was 

 assigned first to Dr. Washington Matthews, whose ill health unfortunately com- 

 pelled him to relinquish it, when it was given to Dr. J. H. McCormick; the Atta- 

 capan, Beothukan, Iroquoian, and Uchean stocks were assigned to Mr. J. N. B. 

 Hewitt; the Chimakuan, Chinookan, Kalapooian, Kusan, Lutuamian, Shaliaptian, 

 Takilnian, VVaiilatpuan, and Yakonan to Dr. Livingston Farrand; the Chimmesyan, 

 Koluschan, Salishan, Skittagetan, and Wakashan to Dr. John R. Swanton; the Cal- 

 fornian stocks to Dr. A. L. Kroeber and Dr. Roland B. Dixon; the Algonquian, 

 Chitimachan, Karankawan, Muskhogean, Natchesan, Shoshonean, Siouan, and 

 TinuKjuanan to Dr. Cyrus Thomas; the Caddoan to Mr. James Mooney; the Eski- 

 mauan, to Dr. J. H. Bair, and the Kitunahan to Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, while the 

 Piman and the Pueblo stocks were undertaken personally by Mr. Hodge. At the 

 close of the year the work on these stock and tribal descriptions had been well 

 advanced, most of the important as well as a number of the smaller linguistic groups 

 being entirely ready for final editorial revision. Owing to pressure of other duties, 

 a number of the specialists not officially connected with the Bureau required more 

 time than was expected, so that some of the outstanding material can not be finished 

 as soon as was desired. 



In accordance with the plan of enlargement of the scope of the dictionary outlined by 

 the Secretary, a schedule of all the subjects tliought to be necessary was jirepared and 

 they were assigned to the specialists to be succinctly written. Those who have been 

 engaged in this part of the work are Mr. AV. H. Holmes, Mr. F. W. Hodge, Dr. Cyrus 

 Thomas, INIr. J. N. B. Hewitt, Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, Mr. James Mooney, Prof. 6. T. 

 Mason, Dr. Walter Hough, Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Dr. Washington Matthews, Dr. 

 J. R. Swanton, Mr. Joseiih D. McGuire, Dr. Frank Russell, and Mr. Stewart Culin. 

 At the close of the fiscal year nearly all of the 300 or more articles thus assigned were 

 completed, as was the bibliography of works cited in the tribal descriptions of the 

 dictionary. This latter was prepared by Mr. McGuire. 



For several weeks Mr. Hodge has been engaged in putting in final form the first 

 half of the material for the finst of the proposed two volumes. The first of the 

 Algonquian descriptions (A to M), recorded on about 10,000 cards, were more than 

 half revised for the j)! inter by the close of June, and many more stocks were awaiting 

 similar editorial treatment. 



EXPOSITION WORK. 



Eariy in the year an allotment of |2,000 was made by the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, from funds placed at its disposal by the Government board of the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition, to be used by the Bureau in preparing an exhibit for the 

 exposition. It is arranged that this exhibit shall comprise ethnological and archaeo- 

 logical collections illustrative of the research work of the Bureau, and instructions 

 have been given to members of the staff in the field to take up the work. Progress 

 has been reported by Dr. J. W. Fewkes, who will illustrate his researches in the 

 West Indies; by Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson, who will collect specimens illus- 

 tratmg Zuni arts and customs, and by Mr. James Mooney, who has in hand a series 

 of exhibits de.signed to represent the heraldic systems of the Plains Indians. 



