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cess was attained in determining the probable course of the Span- 

 iards than had been anticipated. While in the field he also collected 

 linguistic material from the Tunica Indians near Marksville, La. 

 There are supposed to be only three individuals who can still use 

 the old tongue. 



Doctor Swanton devoted a large part of his time to continuing 

 preparation of the Handbook of the Southeastern Indians, and a be- 

 ginning has been made on a bulletin to include the linguistic material 

 of the Coahuiltecan tongues now extinct. The work of copying the 

 tribal map of the Indians of North America has been practically 

 completed. 



Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, was at work among the South- 

 ern Cheyenne at the beginning of the fiscal year. The object was 

 to restore phonetically some Cheyenne words previously extracted 

 from Fetter's Dictionary which were clearly Algonquian in origin. 

 Measurements were taken of some 23 subjects, and a good deal of 

 new ethnological information was obtained. Near the middle of 

 July Doctor Michelson left for Tama, Iowa, to obtain some addi- 

 tional material on Fox ceremonials. Early in August he left Iowa 

 and went among the Northern Cheyenne to restore the list of 

 Cheyenne words mentioned above according to Northern Cheyenne 

 phonetics. Incidentally a really representative group of Northern 

 Cheyenne were measured. A statistical study has shown that the 

 vault of the skull is decidedly low as compared with that of most 

 Algonquian peoples and rather resembles the skull of the Dakota 

 Sioux. In June, 1932, Doctor Michelson again left for the field. 

 He succeeded in gaining some important sociological data on the 

 Kiowa and obtained some new facts on Cheyenne linguistics, 

 sociology, and mythology. 



John F. Harrington, ethnologist, made a thorough study of the 

 Indians of Monterey and San Benito Counties, in central California, 

 and investigated the little known Chingichngich culture of the coast 

 of southern California. Working with the oldest survivors of the 

 Costanoan and Esselen speaking Indians of Monterey and San 

 Benito Counties, Mr. Harrington found it possible by fully utilizing 

 all the early records and vocabularies to illuminate the former life 

 of these people and to define it as clearly as that of some of the better 

 known western groups. The study demonstrated that this culture 

 indicates a key region for central California ethnology, since it 

 proved to be a connecting link between the cultures of northern and 

 southern California. These Indians lived on a wooded mountain- 

 ous coast, the northern breaking down of the great Santa Lucia 

 Range, in a broad interior valley, known in early times as la Canada 

 del rio de Monterey and now as the Salinas Valley, and in the hilly 



