REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 31 



phonetic shifts. The manuscript was completed before the end of 

 the fiscal year. Toward the close of the fiscal year Dr. Michelson 

 was engaged in working out the phonetic shifts in Natick, an extinct 

 Algonquian language, on the basis of Trumbull's Dictionary. 



During the first 6 months of the fiscal year, Dr. John P. Harring- 

 ton, ethnologist, continued his field studies among the Mission Indians 

 of California, obtaining a rather exhaustive set of notes to accompany 

 the publication of the Boscana manuscript recently discovered by 

 him. It is the long-lost original of the only complete report ever 

 written by a Franciscan missionary on the ethnology of the Califor- 

 nia Indians, It was written by the Rev. Jeronimo Boscana at San 

 Juan Capistrano Mission on the cost of southern California in 1822, 

 and is a delightfully variant version of the Boscana account entitled 

 " Chinigchinich ", published in English translation by Alfred Rob- 

 inson as an appendix to his Life in California in 1846. The task of 

 taking this Spanish original to the oldest surviving Indians and elicit- 

 ing their comment on its many detailed statements proved fascinat- 

 ing and often went far beyond the scope of the original. 



The following 5 months were spent in Washington, D. C, in elab- 

 oration of field material. A very literal and careful translation of 

 the newly found manuscript was made, and this translation was 

 published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 92, 

 no. 4. Copy of the Spanish text has been j^repared, and this with 

 the notes, which exceed several times the bulk of the manuscript, will 

 constitute a later publication by the Smithsonian. 



Leaving Washington for California early in June, Dr. Harrington 

 spent 17 days with an old Indian informant who contributed much 

 to the Boscana notes and gave considerable other important infor- 

 mation. The end of the fiscal year found him still in the field. 



Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., archeologist, was on leave of absence 

 from the Bureau during the months of July and August 1933. Dur- 

 ing this time he excavated the remains of a small village of the Pueblo 

 I type. The investigations were carried on 3I/2 miles south of Allan- 

 town, Ariz., on a portion of the site where researches were conducted 

 in the field seasons of 1931, 1932. The 1933 work was done under 

 the auspices of the Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, N. Mex., 

 as a part of its program of field training for graduate students. The 

 Laboratory and the Bureau cooperated in the investigations of 1931 

 and the Bureau sponsored those of 1932. Despite its small size, the 

 village excavated in 1933 contributed valuable data on developments 

 occurring within a single phase in the history of the pre-Spanish 

 Pueblo Indians, and this knowledge is being incorporated in the large 

 report on the results of the previous years' investigations at the site. 



In the 2 months allotted to the work, two unit dwellings — one 

 consisting of 5 rooms and a subterranean ceremonial chamber, 



