﻿REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  SECRETARY 
  27 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton 
  was 
  engaged 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  fiscal 
  year 
  in 
  

   the 
  preparation 
  of 
  a 
  bulletin 
  on 
  " 
  The 
  Social 
  and 
  Religious 
  Usages 
  

   of 
  the 
  Chickasaw 
  Indians," 
  and 
  a 
  similar 
  paper 
  relating 
  to 
  the 
  

   Choctaw. 
  He 
  also 
  completed 
  a 
  card 
  catalogue 
  of 
  the 
  Timucua 
  words 
  

   used 
  in 
  the 
  j^rinted 
  works 
  of 
  Pareja 
  and 
  Morvilla. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Truman 
  Michelson 
  continued 
  his 
  researches 
  among 
  the 
  Algon- 
  

   quian 
  tribes, 
  beginning 
  with 
  the 
  Arapaho 
  of 
  Wyoming, 
  where 
  his 
  

   work 
  brought 
  out 
  clearly 
  the 
  divergent 
  character 
  of 
  their 
  language 
  

   as 
  compared 
  with 
  other 
  Algonquian 
  tongues. 
  In 
  Chicago 
  he 
  took 
  

   the 
  important 
  measurements 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  Blackfoot 
  (Siksika) 
  crania 
  

   preserved 
  in 
  the 
  Field 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History. 
  These 
  measure- 
  

   ments, 
  combined 
  with 
  those 
  of 
  material 
  already 
  in 
  the 
  National 
  

   Museum, 
  should 
  permit 
  the 
  determination 
  of 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  disputed 
  

   points. 
  In 
  Washington 
  Doctor 
  Michelson 
  prepared 
  for 
  publication 
  

   by 
  the 
  bureau 
  a 
  paper 
  entitled 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  Dance 
  of 
  the 
  

   Thunder 
  Gens 
  of 
  the 
  Fox 
  Indians 
  " 
  and 
  three 
  new 
  Fox 
  texts. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  John 
  P. 
  Plarrington 
  spent 
  the 
  year 
  in 
  the 
  Chumash 
  region 
  

   of 
  southern 
  California. 
  The 
  Chumash 
  Indians 
  are 
  rapidly 
  taking 
  

   up 
  the 
  life 
  and 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  whites, 
  and 
  the 
  gathering 
  of 
  infor- 
  

   mation 
  about 
  them 
  is 
  urgent. 
  Mr. 
  Harrington 
  made 
  a 
  very 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  linguistic 
  stud}^ 
  of 
  the 
  ethnobotany 
  of 
  the 
  Chumash 
  and 
  exca- 
  

   vated 
  several 
  rancheria 
  sites 
  which 
  threw 
  new 
  light 
  on 
  the 
  mode 
  of 
  

   life 
  of 
  these 
  Indians. 
  He 
  also 
  acted 
  as 
  assistant 
  to 
  Doctor 
  Fewkes 
  

   in 
  the 
  excavation 
  of 
  Elden 
  Pueblo 
  and 
  in 
  recording 
  phonographically 
  

   the 
  songs 
  of 
  the 
  Hopi 
  Indians. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  J. 
  N. 
  B. 
  Hewitt 
  completed 
  early 
  in 
  the 
  past 
  year 
  the 
  manu- 
  

   script 
  " 
  Iroquoian 
  Cosmology, 
  second 
  part, 
  with 
  introduction 
  and 
  

   notes." 
  He 
  devoted 
  considerable 
  time 
  to 
  work 
  upon 
  the 
  manuscript 
  

   report 
  on 
  the 
  Indian 
  tribes 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  Missouri 
  River 
  made 
  by 
  

   Edwin 
  Thompson 
  Denig 
  to 
  the 
  Hon. 
  Isaac 
  Stevens, 
  Governor 
  of 
  

   Washington 
  Territory, 
  and 
  in 
  recording 
  lexical 
  and 
  grammatical 
  

   material 
  in 
  the 
  language 
  of 
  the 
  Nez 
  Perce 
  Indians 
  of 
  the 
  Shahap- 
  

   tian 
  linguistic 
  stock. 
  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  reports, 
  as 
  custodian 
  of 
  manu- 
  

   scripts, 
  that 
  the 
  cataloguing 
  of 
  the 
  manuscripts 
  has 
  been 
  completed 
  

   and 
  the 
  cataloguing 
  of 
  the 
  phonographic 
  records 
  of 
  Indian 
  music 
  

   begun. 
  On 
  May 
  8, 
  1927, 
  Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  went 
  to 
  Brantford, 
  Canada, 
  

   where 
  he 
  resumed 
  his 
  researches, 
  studying 
  intensively 
  the 
  rituals, 
  

   laws, 
  customs, 
  and 
  chants 
  characteristic 
  of 
  the 
  League 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois. 
  

   He 
  recorded 
  the 
  text 
  and 
  music 
  of 
  several 
  chants. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  F. 
  H. 
  H. 
  Roberts, 
  jr., 
  joined 
  the 
  staff 
  of 
  the 
  bureau 
  November 
  

   1, 
  1926. 
  His 
  winter 
  months 
  were 
  devoted 
  to 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  ceramics 
  

   of 
  the 
  San 
  Juan 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  Southwest. 
  In 
  the 
  spring 
  Dr. 
  Roberts 
  

   left 
  Washington 
  for 
  the 
  West, 
  making 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  ceramic 
  forms 
  in 
  

   the 
  Museum 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  Colorado 
  at 
  Boulder, 
  Colo., 
  and 
  

  

  