4 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
made by Dowling, of Greenville, include several unique 
specimens. 
Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, was engaged during 
the past fiscal year in reading the proof of his papers on 
“Social Organization and Social Usages of the Indians of 
the Creek Confederacy’’; ‘‘Aboriginal Culture of the 
Southeast ’’; and the proof of Mr. W. E. Myer’s paper on 
“Trails of the Southeast.’’ These papers are to appear in 
the Forty-second Annual Report. Doctor Swanton pre- 
pared a paper of over 200 pages on the ‘‘Social and Re- 
ligious Beliefs and Usages of the Chickasaw Indians,”’’ 
which has been accepted for publication. With the help 
of Miss Mae Tucker, he completed a card catalogue of the 
Timucua words contained in the printed works of Pareja 
and Movilla, which he is now engaged in studying and 
correcting. He also has in preparation a bulletin on the 
social and religious usages of the Choctaw Indians similar 
to that on the Chickasaw. 
During the fiscal year Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnolo- 
gist, continued his researches among the Algonquian tribes. 
In the early part of the year he began work among the 
Arapaho of Wyoming. Although many years ago he 
pointed out the divergent character of their language as 
compared with other Algonquian tongues, the past season’s 
work brought this out even more clearly. It can not be 
denied that Algonquian elements occur in both the vocabu- 
lary and grammar of the language, even though the pho- 
netic shifts are highly complex. But certain lexical ele- 
ments, as well as certain morphological traits, must appar- 
ently be derived from other sources. From these prelim- 
inary studies it may be said that Arapaho might almost be 
called a stock in the making. The circumstances render 
an exhaustive study of the language highly desirable. In 
Washington Doctor Michelson prepared for publication 
by the bureau a manuscript entitled ‘‘ Notes on the Buftalo- 
head Dance of the Thunder Gens of the Fox Indians.”’ 
He also corrected the proofs of Bulletin 85, ‘‘Contribu- 
tions to Fox Ethnology.”’ 
