52 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 
he visited the small body of Indians in Seminole County who still 
retain a speaking knowledge of Hitchiti, and added about 40 pages 
of text to that previously obtained, besides correcting a portion of 
Gatschet’s Hitchiti vocabulary. He made an arrangement with an 
interpreter by which 100 pages of additional text were received after 
his return to Washington. 
While some time was devoted to studies of the Alabama, Hitchiti, 
and Choctaw languages, most of Dr. Swanton’s attention while in 
the office during the year was centered on two particular undertak- 
ings. One of these was the proof reading of the Choctaw-English 
section of Byington’s Choctaw Dictionary, and the compilation, with 
the efficient help of Miss M. C. Rollins, of an English-Choctaw in- 
dex, which will comprise about 350 printed pages, to accompany it. 
The other was work on the first draft of an extended report on the 
Creek confederacy, of which the historical part, consisting of 300 
typewritten pages, is practically completed. 
At the beginning of the year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, 
* undertook the work of editing and copying the Seneca text “ Shago- 
wenotha, or The Spirit of the Tides,” which was recorded by him in 
the form of field notes in 1896 on the Cattaraugus Reservation, New 
York. This particular piece of work, forming a text of 3,692 native 
~ words, was completed in August, 1913. The task of making a literal, 
almost an etymological, interlinear translation of this text was next 
undertaken and was completed in November, yielding an aggregate 
of 11,411 English words in the rendering. The other of the two 
native texts in Seneca, “ Doadanegen and Hotkwisdadegena,” which 
was recorded in the form of field notes by Mr. Hewitt in 1896, was 
next edited and copied; this work was completed by the close of 
December and consists of 4,888 native Seneca words. The literal 
interlinear translation of this text then taken up was completed in 
February, 1914, making 14,664 English words in the rendering. 
On finishing these translations Mr. Hewitt commenced the read- 
ing and digesting of the Seneca material of the late Jeremiah 
Curtin for the purpose of providing notes and explanations to the 
stories, a task that was made the more difficult by the fact that Mr. 
Curtin’s field notes of explanation and identification are not avail- 
able. One of the longest of the stories collected by Mr. Curtin, 
“Doonogaes and Tsodiqgwadon,” comprising 149 typewritten pages, 
required 144 notes varying in length from three or four lines to 
several pages; but this story is of exceptional length. The entire 
Curtin material has now been reread and annotated. Mr. Hewitt 
also completed the notes for his introduction to the “Seneca Myths 
and Fiction,” and the final writing was almost finished by the close 
of the year. 
