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of the material in that tongue still preserved, should be published 

 without delay and the greater part of the winter of 1930-31 was 

 spent in editing it. To Gatschet's material have been added the 

 Eastern Atakapa words collected by Murray and the Akokisa vocab- 

 ulary obtained by the French captain, Berenger, and published by 

 Du Terrage and Rivet. A bulletin containing all this is now in the 

 hands of the printer. 



Work has progressed on the tribal map of North America which 

 is being copied by Mrs. E. C. M. Payne, and additions have been 

 made to the text to accompany it. 



Doctor Swanton is preparing the first draft of a Handbook of the 

 Indians of the Southeast. 



The closing weeks of the year were devoted to reading the proof of 

 Bulletin 103, entitled " Source Material for the Social and Cere- 

 monial Life of the Choctaw Indians." 



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

 poo of Oklahoma at the beginning of the fiscal year. A really 

 representative body of Kickapoo mythology is now available, and 

 it is quite certain that it is more northern than Fox mythology. 

 The ritualistic origin myths are still terra incognita. A good begin- 

 ning has been made on Kickapoo social organization. In the middle 

 of July Doctor Michelson went among the Foxes of Iowa. The 

 object of the trip vv^as to restore one Fox test phonetically and to 

 obtain some new texts, in the current sjdlabic script, on Fox cere- 

 monials, in both of which projects he was successful. Doctor 

 Michelson returned to Washington August 4. He completed his 

 memoir on the Fox WapAnowiweni and transmitted it for publica- 

 tion February T. His paper. Contributions to Fox Ethnology, II, 

 Bulletin 95 of the bureau, appeared in the course of the fiscal year. 



The remainder of the time was largely taken up studying materials 

 gathered previously and also in extracting from Fetter's Cheyenne 

 Dictionary such stems and words as can be rigorously proved to be 

 Algonquian. The material on the physical anthropology of the 

 Cheyenne showed clearly the great variation that occurs among liv- 

 ing races. A proper technique was worked out for determining the 

 Cheyenne words of Algonquian origin. Though Fetter's alphabet 

 is inadequate, it was possible to partially control this material by 

 comparing it with that of Doctor Michelson. Approximately TOO 

 of such words and stems were extracted. Though the technique 

 mentioned above is very slow. Doctor Michelson is convinced that it 

 is the correct procedure. It was entirely feasible to establish about 

 TO phonetic shifts which have transformed Cheyenne from normal 

 Algonquian into divergent Algonquian. 



Toward the close of May Doctor Michelson left for Oklahoma and 

 i-enewed his work with the Cheyenne of that State. He restored 



