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few years ago, and completed the extraction of words from these 

 texts, of which a beginning was made last year. 



Doctor Swanton has added a few hundred cards to his material 

 bearing on the economic basis of American Indian life, and has gone 

 over Mr. James Murie's paper on the Ceremonies of the Pawnee twice, 

 in order to make certain necessary changes in the phonetic symbols 

 employed. He has also devoted some time to studies of the Alabama, 

 Hitchiti, and Muskogee languages. 



Doctor Sw T anton also continued the preparation of a paper on the 

 Social Organization and Social Customs of the Indians of the Creek 

 Confederacy, covering over 700 manuscript pages. 



During the entire fiscal year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was 

 engaged in office work. His first work was devoted to the completion 

 of the preparation bj^ retyping of the Onondaga texts of the second 

 part of the Iroquoian Cosmology, the first part having appeared in 

 the Twenty-first Annual Report of the Bureau. Not only is the 

 orthography of a large number of the native terms being standard- 

 ized to conform in spelling with the other Iroquoian texts recorded 

 by Mr. Hewitt but the statements and phrasing of numerous pas- 

 sages are also amplified or amended in such manner as to utilize in- 

 formation obtained by Mr. Hewitt since the recording of the original 

 texts. 



Mr. Hewitt also took advantage of the opportunity presented by 

 the presence in Washington of Mr. George Gaboosa, a mixed-blood 

 Chippewa Indian of Garden Elver, Ontario, Canada, who speaks 

 both Chippewa and Ottawa dialects of Algonquian, by securing his 

 aid in revising and translating a number of Ottawa texts supplied in 

 1900 by John Miscogeon, an Ottawa mixed-blood, then in Washing- 

 ton, D. C. These texts are either myths or traditions embodying 

 myths. Mr. Gaboosa supplied the Chippewa versions of these stories. 

 In addition to this work he supplied interlinear translations to all the 

 texts. The following is a list of these texts: The Myth of Nana- 

 bozho's Mother; Living Men Visit the Sky-Land ; The Myth of Sum- 

 mer and Winter; The Myth of Daylight-Maker, or Daymaker; The 

 Myth of Nanabozho. 



Mr. Hewitt is at work on some material relating to the general 

 culture of the Muskhogean peoples, especially that relating to the 

 Creeks and the Choctaw. In 1881-82 Maj. J. W. Powell began to 

 collect and record this matter at first hand from Mr. L. C. Perryman 

 and Gen. Pleasant Porter, both well versed in the native customs, be- 

 liefs, culture, and social organization of their peoples. Mr. Hewitt 

 assisted in this compilation and recording. In this way he became 

 familiar with this material, which was laid aside for lack of careful 

 revision, and a portion of which has been lost; but as there is still 

 much that is valuable and not available in print it was deemed wise 



