First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology / to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881

Ē ā ē ī ō ū (vowel with macron or “long” mark)
Ă Ĕ Ĭ ă ĕ ĭ ŏ (vowel with breve or “short” mark)
Ś ś ć (s, c with “acute”: mainly in Recording Indian Languages article)
ⁿ (small raised n, representing nasalized vowel)
ɔ ʇ ʞ (inverted letters)
‖ (double vertical line
There are also a handful of Greek words; transliterations are given in mouse-hover popups. Some compromises were made to accommodate font availability:
Turned (rotated) c is represented by ɔ (technically an open o ).
Inverted V is represented by the Greek letter Λ.
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Syllable stress is represented by an acute accent either on the main v ó wel or after the syl´ lable; inconsistencies are unchanged. Except for the special characters noted above, brackets are in the original. Note that in the Sign Language article, hand positions identified by letter (A, B ... W, Y) are descriptive; they do not represent a “finger alphabet”.
The First Annual Report includes ten “Accompanying Papers”, all available from Project Gutenberg as individual e-texts. Except for Yarrow’s “Mortuary Customs”, updated shortly before the present text, the separate articles were released between late 2005 and late 2007. For this combined e-text they have been re-formatted for consistency, and most illustrations have been replaced. Some articles have been further modified to include specialized characters shown above, and a few more typographical errors have been corrected.