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for Indian designs for regimental flags for two newly organized 
regiments. 
In the latter part of October and throughout November, 
1919, Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, was at Anadarko, 
Okla., where he recorded about 270 pages of text in the 
Wichita language and 100 in Kichai, besides considerable 
vocabulary material in both. It should be remarked that 
the Kichai language is rapidly becoming extinct, being now 
spoken fluently by not over a dozen persons. 
During the summer preceding this expedition he was 
engaged in the extraction and card cataloguing of words from 
his Natchez texts, and after his return he prepared a gram- 
matical sketch of the Natchez language, complete as far as 
the material on hand will permit, but withheld from publica- 
tion for a final review with the help of Indian informants. 
This language is now spoken by only three persons. 
He also completed a sketch of the Chitimacha language, 
the rough draft of which had already been prepared, and 
began the extraction and recording of words from his texts 
in the Koasati language. 
Part of his time has been occupied in correcting the proofs 
of his Bulletin 73, on the Early History of the Creek Indians 
and Their Neighbors. 
Several hundred cards have been added to his catalogue 
of material bearing on the economic basis of American Indian 
life. 
Doctor Swanton completed reading the proofs of Bulletin 
68, A Structural and Lexical Comparison of the Tunica, 
Chitimacha, and Atakapa Languages, and the bulletin was 
issued in December, 1919. 
The sketch of the Chitimacha language mentioned above, 
along with a similar sketch of Atakapa previously prepared, 
is ready for publication. Doctor Swanton has a much longer 
paper on the social organization and social customs of the 
southeastern Indians which requires a little work for com- 
pletion, but is withheld until the bulletin, which it naturally 
follows, is through the press. 
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