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  Al!TN"UAL 
  EEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1929 
  

  

  site. 
  Collections 
  of 
  shells 
  and 
  bones 
  were 
  made 
  in 
  the 
  different 
  levels 
  

   of 
  the 
  mound, 
  together 
  with 
  human 
  artifacts 
  associated 
  with 
  them, 
  

   with 
  a 
  view 
  to 
  establishing 
  a 
  culture 
  sequence. 
  

  

  The 
  site 
  at 
  Safety 
  Harbor 
  was 
  determined 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   culture 
  as 
  that 
  excavated 
  at 
  Weeden 
  Island 
  during 
  the 
  winters 
  of 
  

   1923 
  and 
  1924. 
  

  

  The 
  large 
  sand 
  mound 
  at 
  Palma 
  Sola 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  exceptional 
  

   interest 
  and 
  was 
  selected 
  as 
  a 
  site 
  for 
  intensive 
  excavation 
  next 
  

   winter. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  latter 
  part 
  of 
  April 
  Mr. 
  Stirling 
  visited 
  Chicago 
  for 
  

   the 
  purpose 
  of 
  delivering 
  lectures 
  before 
  the 
  Geographic 
  Society 
  of 
  

   Chicago 
  and 
  the 
  anthropologists 
  of 
  Chicago 
  and 
  vicinity. 
  From 
  

   Chicago 
  he 
  went 
  to 
  Memphis, 
  Tenn., 
  where 
  he 
  attended 
  the 
  meeting 
  

   of 
  the 
  Tennessee 
  Academy 
  of 
  Sciences 
  and 
  addressed 
  the 
  society 
  at 
  

   their 
  annual 
  banquet. 
  Proceeding 
  from 
  Memphis 
  to 
  Macon, 
  Ga., 
  

   he 
  visited 
  the 
  large 
  mounds 
  on 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  Old 
  Ocmulgee 
  Town, 
  tra- 
  

   ditional 
  founding 
  place 
  of 
  the 
  Creek 
  Confederacy. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  third 
  week 
  in 
  May 
  Mr. 
  Stirling 
  attended 
  the 
  con- 
  

   ference 
  of 
  Mid-Western 
  Archeologists, 
  which 
  was 
  held 
  at 
  St. 
  Louis 
  

   under 
  the 
  auspices 
  of 
  the 
  National 
  Eesearch 
  Council, 
  and 
  as 
  repre- 
  

   sentative 
  of 
  this 
  body 
  went 
  to 
  Montgomery, 
  Ala., 
  to 
  deliver 
  an 
  ad- 
  

   dress 
  at 
  the 
  unveiling 
  of 
  a 
  monument 
  by 
  the 
  Alabama 
  Anthropologi- 
  

   cal 
  Society 
  on 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  old 
  Tukabatchi. 
  

  

  He 
  also 
  attended 
  the 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Association 
  for 
  the 
  

   Advancement 
  of 
  Science 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  in 
  December, 
  1928, 
  as 
  repre- 
  

   sentative 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Government. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton, 
  ethnologist, 
  was 
  engaged 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  in 
  

   completing 
  the 
  proof 
  reading 
  of 
  his 
  bulletin 
  on 
  the 
  Myths 
  and 
  Tales 
  

   of 
  the 
  Southeast, 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  released 
  for 
  publication. 
  

  

  Considerable 
  material 
  was 
  added 
  to 
  his 
  manuscript 
  paper 
  entitled 
  

   " 
  Source 
  Material 
  for 
  Choctaw 
  Ethnology." 
  Part 
  of 
  this 
  was 
  col- 
  

   lected 
  from 
  the 
  archives 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Department 
  of 
  Archives 
  and 
  

   History 
  at 
  Jackson, 
  Miss., 
  and 
  some 
  from 
  the 
  eastern 
  Choctaw 
  at 
  

   Philadelphia, 
  Miss., 
  in 
  July, 
  1928. 
  Also, 
  a 
  great 
  deal 
  more 
  work 
  

   was 
  devoted 
  to 
  the 
  projected 
  tribal 
  map 
  of 
  aboriginal 
  North 
  America 
  

   north 
  of 
  Mexico 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  accompanying 
  text, 
  including 
  the 
  in- 
  

   corporation 
  of 
  some 
  valuable 
  notes 
  furnished 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Diamond 
  

   Jenness, 
  chief 
  of 
  the 
  division 
  of 
  anthropology 
  of 
  the 
  Geological 
  

   Survey 
  of 
  Canada. 
  

  

  Work 
  was 
  continued 
  throughout 
  the 
  year 
  on 
  the 
  Timucua 
  diction- 
  

   ary 
  which, 
  in 
  spite 
  of 
  the 
  elimination 
  of 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  cards 
  on 
  

   account 
  of 
  closer 
  classification 
  and 
  the 
  correction 
  of 
  errors, 
  still 
  fills 
  

   14 
  trays. 
  

  

  Shortly 
  after 
  July, 
  1928, 
  Dr. 
  Truman 
  Michelson, 
  ethnologist, 
  left 
  

   Washington 
  to 
  renew 
  his 
  research 
  among 
  the 
  Algonquian 
  Tribes 
  of 
  

  

  