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By agreement with Mr. Karl Moon, noted for his work in Indian 

 photography, the bureau is to receive a series of Osage photographs, 

 taken with the aid of Mr. La Flesche, who made the necessary ar- 

 rangements with the Indians to pose for them. Mr. La Flesche re- 

 ceived as a gift from Wano n shezhi n ga the sacred bundle of the Eagle 

 clan, to which he belongs. This fine specimen has been transferred 

 to the National Museum, where it is placed with the other Osage 

 bundles that he has been so fortunate as to obtain. 



Dr. Paul Radin, ethnologist, was among the Winnebago Indians of 

 Wisconsin at the opening of the fiscal year, having resumed his in- 

 vestigations of this people in the preceding month. These were con- 

 tinued to completion, and in October, 1911, Dr. Radin returned to 

 Washington and continued the preparation of a monograph on the 

 ethnology of the Winnebago tribe, which was brought to completion 

 and submitted in the latter part of March, 1912. Although the 

 medium of publication of this memoir has not yet been determined, 

 it is probable that it will appear as the accompanying paper of the 

 twenty -ninth annual report. 



Dr. Franz Boas, honorary philologist, continued the linguistic re- 

 searches outlined in previous reports, the immediate object of which 

 is the completion of part 2 of the Handbook of American Indian 

 Languages, which is to contain sketches of the native languages of 

 Oregon and Washington, with some additional material on the ex- 

 treme northwestern part of the continent. An account of the devel- 

 opment of the plan and object of this Handbook was set forth in my 

 last annual report. 



The printing of the sketch of the Takelma grammar, by Dr. Ed- 

 ward Sapir, for this Handbook, has been completed, and the separates 

 thereof have been issued. The work of Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg un- 

 fortunately suffered delay owing to protracted illness. His revision 

 of the Coos grammar, however, has been almost completed, and it 

 is expected that the manuscript of the Siuslaw grammar will be in 

 the hands of Dr. Boas, as editor of the Handbook, by August of this 

 year. The necessary final revision of the subject matter of both 

 sketches was made by Dr. Frachtenberg at Siletz, Oregon. 



Dr. Boas rewrote a grammar of the Chukchee language, with com- 

 parative notes on the Koryak and Kamchadal, by Mr. Waldemar 

 Bogoras, and added references to the published Russian and English 

 series of Chukchee texts, which had been published previously by 

 Mr. Bogoras. In the course of the year this manuscript was also type- 

 written and prepared for the printer. In the summer of 1912 Dr. 

 Boas met Mr. Bogoras in Berlin and discussed with iiim the revised 

 form of the grammar. At the close of the year the results of these 

 discussions were being incorporated in the grammar, and it is ex- 

 pected that the manuscript will be ready for the printer early in the 

 autumn. 



