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Show LTI ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR the " Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages" with words and data from the Muskoki or Creek language, and in addition to the words indicated in the Introduction eight hundred others were collected. Of these nearly three hundred were verbs. He then transferred to the recognized alphabet a vocabulary of words in the Caddo language, and arranged in the same alphabet a considerable collection of words in the Chinook jargon made by Lieutenant Belden. This collection contains many words not found in Gibbs's vocabulary and will be useful in a new publication of the jargon or as a contribution to a collation of its different existing forms. He also filled a volume of the Introduction in Seneca and began the collection of the Seneca folk lore, obtaining some suggestive tales and accounts of beliefs and superstitions. ACCOMPANYING PAPERS. The papers presented in this volume fairly illustrate the number of objects and the range of facts collected by the Bureau, and the character of the studies made thereon, in conducting its investigations. These papers are all so intimately connected with the graphic or plastic arts in their origin and application as to have required a large amount of illustration, there being five hundred and sixty- five figures in the text besides eighty- three full page plates. Special mention of each of these papers follows in their order as printed. It is proper to note that two other papers were prepared and stereotyped with the intention of including them in this volume* but it was found that they would increase its bulk to inconvenience. These last mentioned papers, which will appear in the fifth annual report, are as follows: Burial mounds of the northern sections of the United States, by Prof. Cyras Thomas, pp. 1- 119. The Cherokee nation of Indians; a narrative of their official relations with the Colonial and Federal Governments, by Charles C. Royce, pp. 121- 378. PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, BY GARRICK MALLERY. In the winter of 1876, Brevet Lt Col. Garrick Mallery, U. S. A, was in command at Fort Rice, on the Upper Missouri |
