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Show OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. XLI gate, N. Mex., and in the Cafion de Chelly, Arizona. These are of much value in supplementing the surveys, descriptions, and explorations of the region. LINGUISTIC FIELD WORK. WORK OF MR. J. O. D0R8EY. Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, in September, 1882, visited the reservation of the Six Nations, on Grand River, Upper Canada, and gathered some linguistic material pertaining to the Tutelo, a tribe recently assigned by Horatio Hale to the Siouan family. In November he went to the Indian Territory for the purpose of spending some time among the Kansa, Osage, * and Kwapa, tribes speaking dialects related to that of the Ponka and Omaha, with which he is familiar. On his return to Washington, in February, 1883, he brought the following material: Kansa.- Most of the pages of the second edition of the Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages were filled. He also obtained grammatical notes; material for a dictionary of about three thousand words; texts, consisting of myths, historical papers, and letters ( epistles) dictated in the original by the Indians, to be prepared with interlinear translations; critical notes, and free English translations; an account of the social organization of the tribe, with names of gentes, proper names of members of each gens, & c, the kinship system and marriage laws, with charts; an account of the mourning and war customs, with a curious chart ( one similar being used by the Osage) prepared by the leading war chief of the tribe, from one inherited from his grandfather; a partial classification of the flora and fauna known to the tribe; and maps drawn by the natives, with native local names. Osage.- From the Osage similar information was obtained, with the addition of accounts of a secret order of seven degrees connected with the gentile or clan organization of the tribe and serving as the sole custodian of the tribal traditions. Each of the twenty- one Osage gentes has its peculiar tradition, which is chanted by the principal man of that gens but only in the |