ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 3 



During the third week in May Mr. Stirling attended the 

 conference of Mid- Western Archeologists, which was held 

 at St. Louis under the auspices of the National Research 

 Council, and as representative of this body went to Mont- 

 gomery, Ala., to deliver an address at the unveiling of a 

 monument by the Alabama Anthropological Society on the 

 site of old Tukabatchi. 



He also attended the meeting of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science in New York in 

 December, 1928, as representative of the United States 

 Government. 



Dr. John E. Swanton, ethnologist, was engaged during 

 the year in completing the proof reading of his bulletin on 

 the Myths and Tales of the Southeast, which has been re- 

 leased for publication. 



Considerable material was added to his manuscript pa- 

 per entitled " Source Material for Choctaw Ethnology." 

 Part of this was collected from the archives of the State 

 Department of Archives and History at Jackson, Miss., 

 and some from the eastern Choctaw at Philadelphia, Miss., 

 in July, 1928. Also, a great deal more work was devoted 

 to the projected tribal map of aboriginal North America 

 north of Mexico and to the accompanying text, including 

 the incorporation df some valuable notes furnished by Mr. 

 Diamond Jenness, chief of the division of anthropology 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



Work was continued throughout the year on the Timu- 

 eua dictionary which, in spite of the elimination of a large 

 number of cards on account of closer classification and the 

 correction of errors, still fills 14 trays. 



Shortly after July, 1928, Dr. Truman Michelson, eth- 

 nologist, left Washington to renew his research among the 

 Algonquian tribes of Oklahoma. He first studied the 

 linguistics, sociology, and physical anthropology of the 

 Kickapoo. Kickapoo in certain respects is very impor- 

 tant linguistically. While working on Arapaho he was 

 able to formulate many phonetic shifts of complexity. 

 Even so, the amount of vocabulary that can be proved to 



