ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 83 
During the fiscal year Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, 
has completed the following manuscripts: “Social Organiza- 
tion and Social Usages of the Indians of the Creek Confed- 
eracy’’; ‘‘ Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the 
Creek Indians’; and ‘‘A Grammatical Sketch of the Ala- 
bama Language.” 
Doctor Swanton also completed a card catalogue, arranged 
under stems, of all of the linguistic material contained in 
the Arte de la Lengua Timuquana, by Francisco Pareja, 
and an English-Indian index for the same; and initiated a 
report on the stories of the southeastern Indians. By July 1 
he had completed translations of stories in the Koasati 
language and made a beginning on those in Alabama. Ma- 
terial was added to his collection of references bearing on the 
economic basis of American Indian life, and some map work 
was done in connection with this phase of Indian life. 
The ist of July, 1923, found Dr. Truman Michelson, 
ethnologist, at work among the Fox Indians of Iowa. He 
collected sufficient material for a manuscript entitled ‘“ The 
traditional origin of the Fox Society known as ‘They who 
go about singing’ (singing-around rite).”” This material will 
be published in the Fortieth Annual Report of the bureau. 
A good beginning was also made on the ceremonial “ runners”’ 
and attendants. ‘Tribal dissensions at Tama cut short 
Doctor Michelson’s stay among the Fox Indians and he 
made a reconnaissance among the Potawatomi of Wisconsin, 
the Chippewa at Reserve in the same State, the Ottawa of 
Michigan, the Delaware-Munsee of lower Canada, and the 
Montagnais of Lake St. John, returning to Washington 
near the 1st of October. He definitely determined that there 
are several different Delaware dialects spoken in Canada 
and the United States, and that some of these dialects are 
not clearly related; so that the word Delaware is merely 
a “catchall” term. 
After returning to Washington Doctor Michelson devoted 
his time to elaborating the paper above mentioned on “ The 
traditional origin of the Fox Society, known as ‘ The Singing- 
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around rite’,”’ completing it for publication. 
