56 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1916. 



On May 27 Mr. Mooney proceeded to western North Carolina for 

 the purpose of continuing his Cherokee studies, and at the close of 

 the fiscal year was still in the field. 



Dr. John K. Swanton, ethnologist, devoted the greater part of the 

 year to his memoirs pertaining to the Creek and associated tribes, to 

 which reference was made in the last report. The first of these, 

 dealing with the habitat and classification of the former Southeastern 

 Indians, their history and population, is nearly completed ; it consists 

 of upward of 750 typewritten pages, exclusive of the bibliography, 

 all of which has been put in order and annotated. Some new manu- 

 script sources of information have recently been discovered which 

 will make further additions necessary, but with this exception the 

 text is now complete. Six maps are to be used in illustration; two 

 of these, which are entirely new, are now being made, and the others 

 are to be reproductions. The second paper, to cover the social organi- 

 zation and social customs of the Creeks and their neighbors, has 

 likewise been arranged and annotated, but it is being held in order 

 to incorporate the results of further field research. 



From the end of September until the latter part of November, 

 1915, Dr. Swanton was in Oklahoma, where he collected 113 pages of 

 Natchez text from one of the three surviving speakers of the lan- 

 guage; he also spent about three weeks among the Creek Indians, 

 where about 80 pages of myths in English were procured. Further 

 ethnological material was also obtained from the Creeks and from 

 the Chickasaw, to whom a preliminary visit was made. While with 

 the former people Dr. Swanton perfected arrangements with a young 

 man to furnish texts in the native language, which he is able to 

 write fluently, and in this way 173 pages have been submitted, not 

 including translation. From Judge G. W. Grayson, of Eufaula, 

 Okla., to whom the bureau has been constantly indebted in many 

 ways, was obtained in Creek and English, and also in the form of a 

 dictaphone record, a speech of the kind formerly delivered at the 

 annual poshita^ or busk, ceremony of the Creeks. From an Alibamu 

 correspondent, referred to in previous reports, some additions to the 

 Alibamu vocabulary and a few pages of Alibamu text were procured. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnolo- 

 gist, transcribed and edited the Seneca text " Dooii'dane'ge''' and 

 Plotkwisdadege'^'a ; making 45 pages, to which he added a literal 

 interlinear translation that required more than twice as many Eng- 

 lish words as Indian, the whole being equivalent to about 130 pages. 

 This text is a part of the Seneca material now in press for the 

 Thirty-second Annual Report of the bureau. Mr. Hewitt also read 

 for correction, emendation, and expansion, the galley proofs of Cur- 

 tin's Seneca material, and prepared more than 50 pages of notes and 

 additions for the introduction and also for the text ; he also has ready 



