t)0 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



also obtained here, together with other linguistic material. From Sep- 

 tember 20 to November 8 Mr. Hewitt visited the Grand River Reserve, 

 where a large amount of text was obtained, together with notes and 

 other linguistic material. 



Dr. Franz Boas was employed from February to April in preparing 

 for convenient use a series of vocabularies of the several Salish divisions, 

 previously collected by him in British Columbia. 



Mr. Victor Mindeleff left Washington on October 23 for St. John's? 

 Ariz., where he examined the Hubbell collection of ancient pottery and 

 secured a series of photographs and colored drawings of the more im- 

 portant specimens. Thence he went to Zuni and obtained drawings of 

 interior details of dwellings and other data necessary for the comple- 

 tion of his studies of the architecture of this pueblo. He returned to 

 Washington December 7. 



Mr. A. M. Stephen continued work among the Tusayan pueblos un- 

 der the direction of Mr. Victor Mindeleff. He added much to our 

 knowledge of the traditionary history of Tusayan, and has made an 

 extensive study of the house-lore and records of house-building cere- 

 monials. He furnished also a full nomenclature of Tus'ayan architect- 

 ural terms as applied to the various details of terraced house construc- 

 tion, with etymologies. He secured from the Navajo much useful in- 

 formation of the ceremonial connected with the construction of their 

 conical lodges, or " hogaus," supplementing the more purely architect- 

 ural records of their construction previously collected by Mr. Minde- 

 leff. As opportunity occurred he gathered small, typical collections of 

 baskets and other textile fabrics illustrative of the successive stages of 

 their manufacture, including specimens of raw materials and detailed 

 descriptions of the dyes used. These collections are intended to include 

 also the principal patterns in use at the present time, with the native 

 explanations of their significance. 



OFFICE WORK. 



Director Powell has devoted much time during the year to the final 

 preparation of the paper to accompany the map of the linguistic fami- 

 lies of North America north of Mexico, the scope of which has been 

 alluded to in previous years. The report and map are now practically 

 completed, and will appear in the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau, 

 soon to go to press. 



Mr. Henshaw was chiefly occupied with the administrative duties of 

 the office, which have been placed in his charge by the Director, and 

 with the completion of the linguistic map, which is now ready for the 

 engraver. 



Col. Garrick Mallery, after his return from the field work elsewhere 

 mentioned, was engaged in the elaboration of the new information ob- 

 tained and in further continued study of, and correspondence relating 

 to, sign language and pictography. 



