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entire text is phonetically restored. The punctuation (with 

 a few exceptions, added later at Tama) of the Indian text 

 and English translation was harmonized. 



Doctor Michelson edited Part I of Jones's Ojibwa Texts, 

 containing about 50 pages, which were published by the 

 American Ethnological Society, and collected the author's 

 proofs of Part II, numbering 750, for a sketch of an Ojibwa 

 grammar which will be offered for puljlication Ijy the bureau. 



Doctor Michelson has now in press an article in the 

 Journal of Linguistics showing that the Pequot-Mohegan 

 belong to the Natick group of the central division of the 

 Algonquian language. 



The beginning of the fiscal year found Mr. J. P. Harring- 

 ton, ethnologist, in the field engaged in linguistic studies 

 among the Mission Indians of Ventura County, Calif. At 

 the close of this work, near the end of September, Mr. Har- 

 rington returned to Washington and spent the following 

 months in the elaboration of recently collected material and 

 his Tanoan and Kiowa notes. 



Mr. Harrington has discovered a genetic relationship 

 between the Uto-Aztecan, Tanoan, and Kiowa languages. 

 The last two are so closely related that if the Kiowa had 

 been spoken in New Mexico it would have been classed 

 without hesitation by early writers as a Tanoan language. 

 The Uto-Aztecan is more remotely but not less definitely 

 related to the Kiowa genetically. The Kiowa sketch, 

 amounting to 850 typewritten pages, now includes a com- 

 plete analysis of all the important features of the language. 



On June 9, 1918, Mr. Harrington proceeded to Anadarko, 

 Okla., where he remained until June 26 revising for publi- 

 cation his entire sketch of the Kiowa language, after which 

 he proceeded to Taos, N. Mex. 



From July to August 15, 1917, Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg 

 was engaged in confidential war work for the Department of 

 Justice (Bureau of Investigation). On his return to the 

 bureau he continued his preliminary work on the grammar 

 and mythology of the Kalapuya Indians of central Oregon 

 begun during the previous fiscal year. He also continued 

 his work of extracting, typewriting, and editing all Kalapuya 



