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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1943 
  

  

  No. 
  9 
  of 
  that 
  series. 
  He 
  also 
  contributed 
  several 
  articles 
  to 
  the 
  Ethno- 
  

   geographic 
  Board 
  for 
  distribution 
  to 
  the 
  armed 
  forces. 
  During 
  the 
  

   year 
  Mr. 
  Stirling's 
  paper 
  entitled 
  "Origin 
  Myth 
  of 
  Acoma 
  and 
  Other 
  

   Kecords" 
  was 
  issued 
  as 
  Bulletin 
  135 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton, 
  ethnologist, 
  devoted 
  a 
  considerable 
  por- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  to 
  the 
  reading 
  and 
  correcting 
  of 
  galley 
  and 
  page 
  proof 
  

   of 
  his 
  work 
  entitled 
  "The 
  Indians 
  of 
  the 
  Southeastern 
  United 
  States," 
  

   which 
  is 
  being 
  published 
  as 
  Bulletin 
  137 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau. 
  This 
  will 
  be 
  a 
  

   volume 
  of 
  approximately 
  850 
  pages 
  exclusive 
  of 
  the 
  index. 
  

  

  Some 
  further 
  work 
  was 
  done 
  on 
  the 
  materials 
  preserved 
  from 
  the 
  

   now 
  extinct 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  Timucua 
  Indians 
  of 
  Florida, 
  but 
  it 
  was 
  

   decided 
  to 
  discontinue 
  this 
  for 
  the 
  present. 
  These 
  materials 
  — 
  con- 
  

   sisting 
  of 
  a 
  catalog 
  of 
  Timucua 
  words 
  and 
  English-Timucua 
  index 
  

   to 
  the 
  same, 
  photocopies 
  of 
  the 
  religious 
  works 
  in 
  Timucua 
  and 
  

   Spanish 
  printed 
  in 
  Mexico 
  in 
  the 
  seventeenth 
  century, 
  and 
  typed 
  copies 
  

   of 
  these 
  with 
  some 
  interlinear 
  translation 
  — 
  have 
  been 
  labeled 
  care- 
  

   fully 
  and 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  manuscript 
  vault. 
  

  

  Time 
  was 
  also 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  extraction 
  of 
  ethnographical 
  notes 
  

   from 
  the 
  volumes 
  of 
  Early 
  Western 
  Travels, 
  edited 
  by 
  Reuben 
  Gold 
  

   Thwaites. 
  A 
  paper 
  entitled 
  "Are 
  Wars 
  Inevitable?" 
  was 
  contributed 
  

   as 
  No. 
  12 
  to 
  the 
  War 
  Background 
  Studies 
  of 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institu- 
  

   tion. 
  A 
  few 
  investigations 
  were 
  undertaken 
  for 
  the 
  Board 
  on 
  Geo- 
  

   graphical 
  Names, 
  of 
  which 
  Dr. 
  Swanton 
  is 
  a 
  member. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  P. 
  Harrington, 
  ethnologist, 
  was 
  occupied 
  during 
  the 
  first 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  in 
  an 
  investigation 
  of 
  the 
  Chilcotin 
  languages 
  of 
  

   northern 
  California. 
  The 
  results 
  of 
  this 
  work 
  indicated 
  that 
  Chilcotin 
  

   was 
  introduced 
  into 
  California 
  from 
  Canada 
  in 
  pre-European 
  times, 
  

   but 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  varying 
  rate 
  in 
  time 
  reckoning 
  for 
  the 
  accomplish- 
  

   ment 
  of 
  linguistic 
  changes, 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  Chilcotin 
  occupancy 
  in 
  Cali- 
  

   fornia 
  cannot 
  be 
  estimated. 
  With 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  area 
  south 
  

   of 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Klamath 
  River, 
  Chilcotin 
  occupies 
  the 
  entire 
  

   coastal 
  region 
  of 
  northern 
  California 
  to 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  Usal 
  Creek 
  

   in 
  Mendocino 
  County. 
  In 
  addition 
  to 
  the 
  linguistic 
  connections 
  dis- 
  

   covered, 
  local 
  traditions 
  were 
  obtained 
  linking 
  the 
  Chilcotin 
  peoples 
  

   with 
  a 
  more 
  northern 
  group. 
  Two 
  separate 
  stories 
  were 
  recorded 
  

   deriving 
  the 
  Hupa 
  from 
  the 
  region 
  north 
  of 
  the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Klamath 
  

   River, 
  and 
  one 
  was 
  obtained 
  deriving 
  the 
  Indians 
  of 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Eel 
  

   River 
  drainage 
  from 
  the 
  Hupa 
  region. 
  

  

  Since 
  his 
  return 
  to 
  Washington, 
  Dr. 
  Harrington 
  has 
  been 
  engaged 
  

   in 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  material 
  for 
  the 
  linguistic 
  section 
  of 
  the 
  Hand- 
  

   book 
  of 
  South 
  American 
  Indians. 
  This 
  work 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  discovery 
  

   that 
  Witoto 
  is 
  Tupi-Guarani, 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  very 
  interesting 
  finding 
  

   that 
  Quechua 
  is 
  Hokan. 
  The 
  Hokan 
  hitherto 
  had 
  been 
  known 
  to 
  ex- 
  

   tend 
  only 
  to 
  the 
  Subtiaba 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  west 
  coast 
  of 
  Central 
  

   America. 
  Detailed 
  studies 
  of 
  Quechua 
  and 
  of 
  Cocama 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  

  

  