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present so that more material may be added. Finally, the 

 paper in which the three languages are compared and the 

 conclusion drawn that they belong in reality to but one lin- 

 guistic stock, is to be published as a bulletin by this bureau. 

 This covers about 70 typewritten pages. 



During the latter half of April and all of May Doctor 

 Swanton was engaged in field work in Louisiana, Mississippi, 

 and South Carolina. In the first-mentioned State he con- 

 tinued his investigation of the Chitimacha language. His 

 visit to Mississippi was principally for the purpose of inquiring 

 into the social organization of the Choctaw still living there. 

 In South Carolina he began a study of the Catawba language, 

 with the help of manuscript material left by Doctor Gatschet, 

 and he plans to continue this study dinging the coming year. 

 It is important as the only well-preserved dialect of any of the 

 eastern Siouan peoples and that upon which must be based 

 most of the relationship of the eastern Siouans to the other 

 divisions of the stock. A small amount of ethnological 

 material along other lines was also collected from the Chiti- 

 macha and the Catawba. 



Doctor Swanton has also added some material to his 

 history of the Creek Indians. 



In July, 1917, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, began a 

 critical and comparative study of the Cayuga texts relating 

 to the Iroquois Federation, which he had recorded during 

 the two previous field trips. This manuscript matter aggre- 

 gates more than 500 pages and treats of more than 40 topics 

 or features of the Federation of the Iroquois, dealing with 

 the principles and structure of this institution of the Five 

 "Nations" or tribes. 



This comparative study was carried to tentative comple- 

 tion and involved not only the critical reading of the 500 

 pages of Cayuga text but also an equal number of pages of 

 Mohawk and Onondaga texts. 



Mr. Hewitt also read 200 galleys of proofs of the Seneca 

 myths and tales of the Thirth-second Annual Report of the 

 Bureau of American Ethnology, of which 20 were of native 

 texts with interlinear translations; he added to them nearly 



