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Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confederacy, Religious Beliefs 
and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians, and The Culture of the 
Southeast. These papers are now going through the press. He has 
also finished the scientific editing of a paper on the Trails of the 
Southeast, by the late William E. Myer, which, with those just men- 
tioned, is to appear in the Forty-second Annual Report. 
With the help of Miss Mae W. Tucker, stenographer, Doctor 
Swanton made a considerable advance in compiling a card catalogue 
of the words of the Timucua language previously extracted from 
missionary publications of the Spanish fathers Pareja and Movilla. 
Doctor Swanton also continued his investigations bearing on the 
aboriginal trail system of North America. 
Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, continued his researches among 
the Algonquian Indians of Iowa, concentrating on the gens festivals 
of the Fox Indians, especially those of the Thunder and Bear gentes. 
He also revised in the field the list of Fox stems incorporated in the 
Fortieth Annual Report of the bureau. In August he went to 
Odanah, Wis., to gain further first-hand information on the Ojibwa 
Indians and enough material was secured to show decided dialectic 
differences from the western Ojibwa dialects. The social organiza- 
tion of the Ojibwa is relatively simple as compared with that of the 
Foxes, and the various gentes lack rituals peculiar to themselves, in 
sharp contrast with Fox customs. At Baraga and L’Anse, Mich., 
Doctor Michelson located one Stockbridge (Mahican) family in the 
vicinity, but unfortunately none spoke their native language. The 
Ojibwa dialect, though not identical with that spoken at Odanah, is 
closely allied to it. He also made a preliminary survey of the Ojibwa, 
Ottawa, and Potawatomi, finding that the various languages still per- 
sist and that their ethnology is better preserved than might be 
expected. 
Doctor Michelson returned to Washington on September 19, when 
he prepared for publication by the bureau two papers on sacred 
packs of the Fox Indians and their appurtenant gens festivals, one 
called A'peniwané‘a‘ belonging to the Thunder gens; the other 
Sdgima'kwiwa belonging to the Bear gens. Doctor Michelson 
also completed typewriting the English translation and Indian text 
of a Fox sacred pack belonging to the Thunder gens formerly in 
possession of Pyitwiya. A fuller text than this on Pyiitwiiya’s pack, 
written in the current syllabary, was restored phonetically, as was 
an Indian text on the Thunder Dance of the Bear gens, a complete 
version having been worked out previously, and a fuller redaction 
was obtained. 
Mr. J. P. Harrington, ethnologist, was engaged during the fiscal 
year in the important work of rescuing what can still be learned of 
the vanishing culture of the Mission Indians of California. Work 
