10 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



In July and August, 1915, Mr. Mooney gave considerable 

 time to furnishing information and suggestions for the pro- 

 posed Sequoya statue intended to constitute Oklahoma's 

 contribution to the Capitol gallery. The usual number of 

 letter requests for miscellaneous information also received 

 attention. 



On May 27 Mr. Mooney proceeded to western North Caro- 

 lina for the purpose of continuing his Cherokee studies, and 

 at the close of the fiscal year was still in the field. 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, devoted the greater 

 part of the year to his memoirs pertaining to the Creek and 

 associated tribes, to which reference was made in the last 

 report. The first of these, dealing with the habitat and classi- 

 fication of the former Southeastern Indians, their history and 

 population, is nearly completed ; it consists of upward of 750 

 typewritten pages, exclusive of the bibliography, all of which 

 has been put in order and annotated. Some new manu- 

 script sources of information have recently been discovered 

 which will make fiuther additions necessarj^, but with this 

 exception the text is now complete. Six maps are to be used 

 in illustration ; two of these, which are entirely new, are now 

 being made, and the others are to be reproductions. The 

 second paper, to cover the social organization and social 

 customs of the Creeks and their neighbors, has likewise been 

 arranged and annotated, but it is being held in order to 

 incorporate the results of further field research. 



From the end of September until the latter part of Novem- 

 ber, 1915, Dr. Swanton was in Oklahoma, where he collected 

 113 pages of Natchez text from one of the three surviving 

 speakers of the language; he also spent about three weeks 

 among the Creek Indians, where about 80 pages of myths in 

 English were prociu-ed. Further ethnological material was 

 also obtained from the Creeks and from the Chickasaw, to 

 whom a preliminary visit was made. While with the fonner 

 people Dr. Swanton perfected arrangements with a young 

 man to furnish texts in the native language, which he is able 

 to write fluently, and in this way 173 pages have been sub- 

 mitted, not including translation. From Judge G. W. 

 Grayson, of Eufaula, Okla., to whom the bureau has been 



