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Show OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. LI Mr. VICTOR MINDELEFF was occupied during the month of July and the early part of August in completing a large scale model of the pueblo of Zuili, N. Mex , the plans and other data for which had been collected during the preceding year. After his return from the field in February, 1883, he commenced a series of models of the seven Moki villages to a scale and finish uniform with the model of Zuili. This work was carried on until June, when it was interrupted for the preparation of a series of duplicate models of cliff ruins and pueblos, which were exhibited at the Louisville Exposition in the autumn of 1883. Prof. CYRUS THOMAS, in addition to the general direction of the mound explorations already described, was personally engaged in marking arid arranging the collections obtained and in preparing catalogues of them for the Bureau and the National Museum. He was also engaged in a study on the results of the explorations, in connection with former knowledge on the subject, and in preparing a paper on what he designates as the " northern type" of burial mounds, embraced in the district of the United States lying north of Tennessee and east of the Rocky Mountains but including North Carolina. This paper will appear in the fifth annual report of the Bureau. Dr. H. C. YARROW continued and nearly completed his exhaustive work on the mortuary customs of the North American Indians, and was also occupied in the preparation of a paper upon their medical practices. Prof. OTIS # T. MASON made further progress in his report on the history of education among the North American Indians. In this he has studied the work of the Indian Office, corresponded with all the schools and colleges, and made abstracts from the enumerators' sheets of the Tenth United States Census respecting the Indians not on reservations, besides compiling the special statistics of the Indian census. Mr. JEREMIAH CURTIN became connected with the Bureau on February 5, 1883, when he began an examination of the linguistic material belonging to it; also, with the assistance of Mr. Perryman, of the Indian Territory, he filled a volume of |
