﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY. 
  61 
  

  

  has 
  not 
  yet 
  been 
  set 
  down 
  in 
  full, 
  but 
  all 
  of 
  the 
  essential 
  points 
  have 
  

   been 
  typewritten 
  on 
  cards. 
  

  

  A 
  paper 
  of 
  44 
  pages 
  has 
  been 
  prepared 
  in 
  elaboration 
  of 
  some 
  

   recent 
  discoveries 
  regarding 
  the 
  Siouan 
  peoples, 
  discoveries 
  which 
  

   have 
  an 
  especial 
  bearing 
  on 
  the 
  relationship 
  of 
  the 
  various 
  Siouan 
  

   groups 
  to 
  one 
  another. 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  amount 
  of 
  work 
  has 
  been 
  done 
  in 
  continuance 
  of 
  Doctor 
  

   Swanton's 
  investigations 
  into 
  the 
  economic 
  basis 
  of 
  American 
  Indian 
  

   life, 
  particularly 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  aboriginal 
  trails 
  and 
  trade 
  routes. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  collecting 
  stories 
  dealing 
  with 
  the 
  old 
  clan 
  divisions 
  

   of 
  the 
  Chickasaw 
  Indians, 
  undertaken 
  by 
  a 
  Chickasaw 
  at 
  Doctor 
  

   Swanton's 
  suggestion, 
  has 
  met 
  with 
  gratifying 
  success, 
  10 
  or 
  12 
  such 
  

   stories 
  having 
  already 
  been 
  sent 
  in. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  N. 
  B. 
  Hewitt, 
  ethnologist, 
  was 
  engaged 
  

   entirely 
  in 
  office 
  work. 
  

  

  In 
  his 
  report 
  for 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  1921 
  it 
  was 
  stated 
  that 
  a 
  number 
  ■ 
  

   of 
  Chippewa 
  and 
  Ottawa 
  texts 
  had 
  been 
  obtained 
  in 
  1900 
  from 
  

   Mr. 
  John 
  Miscogeon, 
  an 
  Ottawa 
  mixed 
  blood, 
  then 
  in 
  Washington, 
  

   D. 
  C, 
  and 
  that 
  Mr. 
  George 
  Gabaoosa, 
  a 
  mixed-blood 
  Chippewa, 
  had 
  

   been 
  employed 
  to 
  amend 
  and 
  to 
  supply 
  the 
  Chippewa 
  versions 
  of 
  

   these 
  texts. 
  He 
  also 
  amplified 
  the 
  texts 
  by 
  substantial 
  additions. 
  

   This 
  material 
  covers 
  125 
  pages. 
  Mr. 
  Gabaoosa's 
  fixed 
  habit 
  of 
  writing 
  

   his 
  native 
  language 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  the 
  alphabet 
  employed 
  by 
  the 
  mis- 
  

   sionaries 
  made 
  it 
  needful 
  that 
  these 
  texts 
  thus 
  written 
  be 
  translated 
  

   into 
  the 
  alphabet 
  devised 
  by 
  Maj. 
  J. 
  W. 
  Powell, 
  founder 
  of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  

   of 
  American 
  Ethnology, 
  for 
  recording 
  native 
  Indian 
  languages. 
  

   This 
  work 
  of 
  transliteration 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  considerable 
  difficulty, 
  because 
  

   the 
  aid 
  of 
  a 
  native 
  Chippewa 
  speaker 
  is 
  not 
  available 
  in 
  the 
  office 
  and 
  

   Mr, 
  Hewitt 
  does 
  not 
  speak 
  Chippewa. 
  

  

  In 
  addition, 
  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  continued 
  work 
  in 
  preparing 
  the 
  Musk- 
  

   hogean 
  material 
  detailed 
  in 
  his 
  last 
  report. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  also 
  continued 
  his 
  typing 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  Onondaga 
  texts 
  

   of 
  the 
  second 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquoian 
  Cosmology, 
  the 
  first 
  part 
  having 
  

   appeared 
  in 
  the 
  twenty-first 
  annual 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  bureau. 
  There 
  are 
  

   now 
  255 
  pages 
  of 
  text 
  material 
  in 
  final 
  form. 
  

  

  As 
  custodian 
  of 
  manuscripts 
  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  reports 
  that 
  no 
  new 
  lin- 
  

   guistic 
  records 
  were 
  added 
  to 
  the 
  material 
  permanently 
  in 
  his 
  charge. 
  

   Collaborators 
  and 
  others 
  make 
  temporary 
  deposits 
  of 
  manuscripts 
  

   upon 
  which 
  work 
  is 
  being 
  done, 
  and 
  these 
  are 
  not 
  catalogued 
  as 
  of 
  

   permanent 
  deposit. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  spent 
  much 
  time 
  and 
  study 
  in 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  data 
  

   for 
  official 
  replies 
  to 
  correspondents 
  of 
  the 
  bureau 
  and 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  

   Office 
  also, 
  the 
  latter 
  by 
  reference 
  only. 
  The 
  scope 
  of 
  the 
  inquiries 
  

   covers 
  almost 
  the 
  entire 
  range 
  of 
  human 
  interest, 
  often 
  quite 
  outside 
  

   of 
  the 
  specific 
  researches 
  properly 
  coming 
  within 
  the 
  activities 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  