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corrected notes that were obtained the year before. In Oklahoma 

 Doctor Swanton visited most of the existing Square Grounds of 

 the Creeks, witnessed parts of several ceremonies, and obtained de- 

 scriptions of their ceremonial arrangement. The Choctaw material 

 has been incorporated in his manuscript, " Source Book for the 

 Social and Ceremonial Customs of the Choctaw," which is ready for 

 publication. The data Doctor Swanton collected on Creek Square 

 Grounds will form a short paper and is ready for publication. 



Doctor Swanton corrected throughout the words of his Timucua 

 dictionary, completing work begun last year ; and in addition he be- 

 gan the work of translating them, with the help of the original 

 Timucua-Spanish religious works in which the material is preserved. 

 Further work was done on the map of Indian tribes, the scope of 

 which has been extended so" as to cover Mexico, Central America, 

 and the West Indies ; the accompanying text has also been amplified. 

 On June 20 Doctor Swanton left Washington to resume field work 

 in the State of Louisiana. 



On July 1, 1929, Dr. Ti-uman Michelson, ethnologist, went to 

 Shawnee, Okla., to continue his study of the Algonquin Tribes of 

 that State, where he obtained a fairly representative collection of 

 Ivickapoo mythology. From these studies Doctor Michelson found 

 that his statement made 14 years ago that Ivickapoo mythology, on 

 the whole, is closest to Fox mythology, still holds valid. It should 

 be mentioned that Kickapoo shares with certain northern Indian 

 tribes a number of tales which are either absent from the Fox or 

 their knowledge is confined to but few of them. Despite some sec- 

 ondary changes, Kickapoo is an archaic Algonquian language. It 

 may be added that their religious ideas and practices hold their own 

 with great vigor. Obviously, the type of social organization is quite 

 similar to those of the Sauk and Fox. Work among the Sauk and 

 Shawnee was chiefly linguistic. The new data clearly show that 

 Shawnee is further removed from Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo than 

 supposed; yet it is abundantly clear that it is closer to them than 

 to any other Algonquian languages. Only a short time was given to 

 Cheyenne, practically nothing but linguistics being considered. The 

 opinion given by Doctor Michelson in the twenty-eighth annual re- 

 port of the bureau that Cheyenne must be considered aberrant Al- 

 gonquian is fully sustained. Some social customs were noted, among 

 them male descent. Work among the Arapaho was mainly linguistic. 



A large part of the time in the office was spent in preparing for 

 publication a large memoir on the Fox WapAnowiweni. This is now 

 in an advanced stage of preparation. He also corrected the proofs 

 of Bulletin 95 of the bureau which was issued during the year. 



On June 3, 1930, Doctor Michelson left Washington to renew his 

 work among the Algonquin Tribes of Oklahoma. He spent at first a 



