ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 31 
The Mummy Lake cluster of mounds is a typical village 
and is duplicated again and again on the mesa and the sur- 
rounding valleys. The complete village consists of buildings 
of several forms and functions, isolated or united, although 
the components are largely habitations of the unit type. 
Evidently the tower, with its accompanying kivas and ceme- 
tery, was the necropolis but not a habitation. The spade 
alone can divine the true meaning of members of this group. 
In May the tops of all the walls of Sun Temple were re- 
cemented with groat to protect the walls from snow and 
rain, a work of no small magnitude. 
During the entire year Mr. James Mooney, ethnologist, 
remained in the office, engaged in formulating replies to 
ethnologic inquiries and in digesting material from former 
western field seasons. No new material was collected or 
completed. His work during the winter was interrupted by 
a period of serious illness. 
During the last fiscal year Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnolo- 
gist, practically completed the proof reading of Bulletin 73, 
Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors, 
which is now going through the press. He also copied the 
Koasati texts which were collected a few years ago, and com- 
pleted the extraction of words from these texts, of which a 
beginning was made last year. 
Doctor Swanton has added a few hundred cards to his 
material bearing on the economic basis of American Indian 
life, and has gone over Mr. James Murie’s paper on the 
Ceremonies of the Pawnee twice, in order to make certain 
necessary changes in the phonetic symbols employed. He 
has also devoted some time to studies of the Alabama, 
Hitchiti, and Muskogee languages. 
Doctor Swanton also continued the preparation of a paper 
on the Social Organization and Social Customs of the Indians 
of the Creek Confederacy, covering over 700 manuscript 
pages. 
During the entire fiscal year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnolo- 
gist, was engaged in office work. His first work was devoted 
to the completion of the preparation by retyping of the 
Onondaga texts of the second part of the Iroquoian Cos- 
