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reports. Extensive series of photographs were made during the year hy Dr. Fewkes 

 in connection with his collections of pueblo pottery; by Mr. J. W. Mitchell, pho- 

 tographer for Mr. McGee in the Seriland expedition, and by Mr. Wells M. Sawyer, 

 artist for Mr. Cushing in his Florida work. 



Exhibits. — The Bureau cooperated with the National Museum in arranging the 

 Smithsonian Institution exhibit in the Cotton States aud International Exposition 

 held at Atlanta during the autumn of 1895. An alcove in the Government building 

 was allotted to the Bureau, and this was filled by the installation of six wall cases 

 and four iloor cases, together with a number of bulky objects arranged on top of 

 the wall cases. This exhibit was so arranged as to illustrate the characteristics and 

 modes of life of three tribes, viz: The Cherokee Indians, who formerly occupied the 

 country in what is now northern Georgia, and Avhoso descendants still live in 

 western North Carolina only 150 miles from the site of the exposition ; the Papago 

 Indians, a little known though highly interesting tribe of peaceful Indians, occu- 

 pying southwestern Arizona and northern Sonora; and the Seri Indians, a fierce 

 and exclusive tribe of the Gulf of California, part of whom were found on their 

 borderland and in the course of an expedition by the Bureau during 1891. In 

 addition to the objects exhibited, there were in two wall cases illustrations of the 

 physical characteristics and costumary of the Papago aud Seri Indians. The former 

 were represented by a group of life-size figures engaged in the manufacture of 

 pottery — their typical industry. In the other case a life-size figure of a Seri warrior 

 was introduced. The collections were supplemented by a series of twelve trans- 

 parencies, made from photographs, showing the Papago and Seri Indians in charac- 

 teristic attire, with their habitations and domestic surroundings. Iu the installation 

 of this exhibit, primary attention was given to fidelity of representation rather 

 than to artistic finish or grouping; and it is a source of gratification to observe 

 that the exhibit attracted much attention during the progress of the exposition. It 

 was awarded a grand prize, diploma, and gold medal. 



NECROLOGY. 



James Constantino Pilling, who died July 26, 1895, was a native of the national 

 capital, where he was born November 16, 1846. He was educated in the public schools 

 and Gonzaga College, and subsequently strengthened his predilection toward books 

 by taking a position in a leading bookstore of the city; at the same time he studied 

 the then novel art of stenography, iu which ho became remarkably proficient. At 

 the age of twenty he became a court stenographer. His services soon came into 

 demand among the Congressional committees and in different commissions employed 

 in the settlement of war claims. In every instance his notable speed and accuracy 

 were joined with even more notable discretion and straightforwardness that gained 

 for him the esteem of all with whom he came in contact. His career as stenographer 

 was in every respect exemplary, and his example served to hasten the general intro- 

 duction, and at the same time to elevate the standard, of stenographic art as an aid in 

 the transaction of the public business. 



In 1875 Mr. Pilling was employed by the Director, then in charge of the geolog- 

 ical aud topographical surveys of the Rocky Mountain region, to aid in collecting 

 native vocabularies and traditions, a task for which he was eminently fitted by 

 reason of his phonetic and manual skill. In this service as in his earlier work he 

 displayed not only high ability but signal strength of character. His connection 

 with the survey was continued until that organization was brought to an end in 

 1*7'.! hy the institution of the United States Geological Survey to carry forward the 

 geologic work and the Bureau of American Ethnology to continue the ethnologic 

 researches; ho was then transferred to tho Bureau of Ethnology, where his work on 

 the Indian languages was continued. Daring this period of connection with ethno- 

 logio work his studious habits were strengthened, aud he developed great interest in 



