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MYTHOLOGY. 



Mrs. Matilda Coxe Stevenson continued the study and elaboration of her records 

 concerning the mythology and ceremonials of the Zuni Indians, and practically com- 

 pleted her monograph on this subject. The Pueblo Indians, and especially the ZuTIi, 

 are characterized by an extraordinary subserviency to belief and ritual. Before her 

 connection with the Bureau Mrs. Stevenson became intimately acquainted with the 

 Indians of several pueblos and with their peculiar fiducial customs, and has conse- 

 quently had unprecedented opportunity for the study of observances and esoteric cere- 

 monials, and it has been her aim to record the details of her observations with pencil 

 and camera so fully as to perpetuate these mysteries for the use of future students. In 

 nearly every respect she regards her records concerning the Zuni as complete. At 

 the end of the fiscal year her monograph was finished with the exception of a single 

 chapter, the material for which was incomplete. It was planned to haA r e this mate- 

 rial collected during July and August, 1896. 



During the greater part of the year Mr. Cushing's work in mythology was sus- 

 pended, as he was engaged in general archeologic work. During the early part of 

 the year, however, he spent several weeks in combining the records of archeology, 

 mythology, and modern custom bearing on the evolution and multifarious uses of the 

 arrow, aud incidentally on the invention of the bow. His researches illustrate well 

 not only the great importance of the arrow as a factor in human development, but 

 also the way in which primitive peoples think, act, and evolve. The final report on 

 this subject is not yet complete, but a preliminary statement of results was made 

 public in the form of a vice-presidential address before the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science at the Springfield meeting, 1895. 



PSYCHOLOGY. 



It has not been found expedient in the Bureau to extend the researches to the 

 somatology of the Indians, and all the material pertaining to this subject has been 

 turned over to another branch of the Federal service; but it has been found impos- 

 sible to trace the development of the arts and institutions, beliefs and languages of 

 the aborigines without careful study of primitive modes of thought, and much 

 attention has been given by the Director and some of the collaborators to the sub- 

 ject of psychology, as exemplified among the Indians. The researches in this direc- 

 tion have been carried forward during the year in connection with the work in 

 classification of the Indians, and considerable material has been accumulated for 

 publication in future reports. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The bibliographic work, which has been continued for several years, practically 

 closed with the last fiscal year, and finally terminated, so far as the original plan is 

 concerned, with the death of James Constantine Pilling on July 26. The bibliogra- 

 phy of the Mexican languages was left in a nearly finished condition; but it has not 

 yei been found practicable to complete this work and prepare it for the press. 



PUBLICATION. 



Satisfactory progress has been made during the fiscal year in the editorial work 

 of the Bureau, which has boen conducted chiefly by Mr. F. W. Hodge. 



The manuscript of the fourteenth annual report was sent to press toward the close 

 of the last fiscal year, the first proofs were, received on January 25, 1896, and by the 

 close of the fiscal year the body of the volume was nearly all in type. This report, 

 Which is tu be published in two volumes, making about 1,200 pages, comprises, in 

 addition to the report on the operations of the Bureau and an exhaustive index, three 

 memoirs — ''The Menomini Indians," by Walter J. Hoffman, and " Coronado's Expe- 

 dition in 1510-1542," by George Parker Winship, occupying the first part; the second 



