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  ANNUAL 
  KEPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1927 
  

  

  The 
  chief 
  obtained 
  many 
  excellent 
  photographs 
  of 
  arclieological 
  

   objects 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  Messrs. 
  Thackston 
  and 
  Schwing, 
  of 
  Green- 
  

   ville, 
  to 
  ^Yhom, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  to 
  other 
  citizens 
  of 
  the 
  section, 
  he 
  wishes 
  to 
  

   express 
  here 
  his 
  thanks 
  for 
  the 
  many 
  kindnesses 
  which 
  he 
  received. 
  

   The 
  photographs, 
  made 
  by 
  Dowling 
  of 
  Greenville, 
  include 
  several 
  

   unique 
  specimens. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  John 
  R. 
  Swanton, 
  ethnologist, 
  was 
  engaged 
  during 
  the 
  past 
  

   fiscal 
  year 
  in 
  reading 
  the 
  proof 
  of 
  his 
  papers 
  on 
  " 
  Social 
  Organiza- 
  

   tion 
  and 
  Social 
  Usages 
  of 
  the 
  Indians 
  of 
  the 
  Creek 
  Confederacy"; 
  

   " 
  Aboriginal 
  Culture 
  of 
  the 
  Southeast 
  " 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  proof 
  of 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  E. 
  

   Myer's 
  paper 
  on 
  "Trails 
  of 
  the 
  Southeast." 
  These 
  papers 
  are 
  to 
  

   appear 
  in 
  the 
  forty-second 
  annual 
  report. 
  Doctor 
  Swanton 
  prepared 
  

   a 
  paper 
  of 
  over 
  200 
  pages 
  on 
  the 
  " 
  Social 
  and 
  Religious 
  Usages 
  of 
  

   the 
  Chickasaw 
  Indians," 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  accepted 
  for 
  publication. 
  

   With 
  the 
  help 
  of 
  Miss 
  Mae 
  Tucker, 
  he 
  completed 
  a 
  card 
  catalogue 
  

   of 
  the 
  Timucua 
  words 
  contained 
  in 
  the 
  printed 
  works 
  of 
  Pareja 
  and 
  

   Movilla, 
  which 
  he 
  is 
  now 
  engaged 
  in 
  studying 
  and 
  correcting. 
  He 
  

   also 
  has 
  in 
  preparation 
  a 
  bulletin 
  on 
  the 
  social 
  and 
  religious 
  usages 
  

   of 
  the 
  Choctaw 
  Indians 
  similar 
  to 
  that 
  on 
  the 
  Chickasaw. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  fiscal 
  year 
  Dr. 
  Truman 
  Michelson, 
  ethnologist, 
  con- 
  

   tinued 
  his 
  researches 
  among 
  the 
  Algonquian 
  tribes. 
  In 
  the 
  early 
  

   part 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  he 
  began 
  work 
  among 
  the 
  Arapaho 
  of 
  Wyoming. 
  

   Although 
  many 
  years 
  ago 
  he 
  pointed 
  out 
  the 
  divergent 
  character 
  of 
  

   their 
  language 
  as 
  compared 
  with 
  other 
  Algonquian 
  tongues, 
  the 
  past 
  

   season's 
  work 
  brought 
  this 
  out 
  even 
  more 
  clearly. 
  It 
  can 
  not 
  be 
  

   denied 
  that 
  Algonquian 
  elements 
  occur 
  in 
  both 
  the 
  vocabulary 
  and 
  

   grammar 
  of 
  the 
  language, 
  even 
  though 
  the 
  phonetic 
  shifts 
  are 
  highly 
  

   complex. 
  But 
  certain 
  lexical 
  elements, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  certain 
  morphologi- 
  

   cal 
  traits, 
  must 
  apparently 
  be 
  derived 
  from 
  other 
  sources. 
  From 
  

   these 
  preliminary 
  studies 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  said 
  that 
  Arapaho 
  might 
  almost 
  

   be 
  called 
  a 
  stock 
  in 
  the 
  making. 
  These 
  circumstances 
  render 
  an 
  ex- 
  

   haustive 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  language 
  highly 
  desirable. 
  In 
  Washington 
  

   Doctor 
  Michelson 
  prepared 
  for 
  publication 
  by 
  the 
  bureau 
  a 
  manu- 
  

   script 
  entitled 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Buffalo 
  Head 
  Dance 
  of 
  the 
  Thunder 
  

   gens 
  of 
  the 
  Fox 
  Indians." 
  He 
  also 
  corrected 
  the 
  proofs 
  of 
  Bulletin 
  

   85, 
  " 
  Contributions 
  to 
  Fox 
  Ethnology." 
  

  

  He 
  furthermore 
  typed 
  the 
  Fox 
  text 
  and 
  English 
  translation 
  of 
  

   an 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  wapamotohveni, 
  a 
  text 
  and 
  translation 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  

   relating 
  to 
  the 
  mythical 
  origin 
  of 
  a 
  major 
  ceremony 
  of 
  the 
  Thunder 
  

   gens, 
  and 
  the 
  Indian 
  text 
  of 
  the 
  Thunder 
  dance 
  of 
  the 
  Bear 
  gens. 
  

   All 
  of 
  these, 
  combined 
  with 
  some 
  additional 
  material, 
  will 
  be 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  for 
  publication 
  by 
  the 
  bureau. 
  Doctor 
  Michelson 
  has 
  pre- 
  

   pared 
  a 
  brief 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  St. 
  Lawrence 
  Island 
  Eskimo 
  crania 
  in 
  

   the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum, 
  which 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  printed 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  