14 BURRATI OF AMRRIflAN RTHNOLOGY 



persons .niioug the Creek Jiidiaiis, ;ui(l collected ;i few 

 notes regurding the Choctaw. 



Before his departui'c d'oni Washington and aftei- his 

 return Dr. Swanton spent the greater part of th(^ time in 

 collecting information concei'ning ihe southern ti-ibes from 

 early Spanish, French, and English aulhoi-iiies. Con- 

 siderable attention was also devoted to reading the proofs 

 of the Rev, Cyrus Byington's Choctaw Dictionary, now in 

 I)rocess of printing, in which labor he was efficiently aided 

 by Mr. 11. S. Ilalbert, of the Alabama State d(;])artment of 

 archives and history. Dr. Swanton also commenced a 

 general grammatical study of the languages of the Musk- 

 hogean stock, particularly Alabama, Ilitchiti, and Choc- 

 taw, and in order to further this work he was subsequently 

 engaged in making a preliminaiy stem catalogue of Creek 

 from the maici-ial recoi'dcd by the late Dr. Oatschet, simi- 

 lar to the catalogue already prepared for Hitchiti, Ala- 

 bama, and Natchez, lie began also the prepai-ation of a 

 cai'd catalogue of words in Timucua, the ancient extinct 

 languag(i of Florida, taken from the grammar and cate- 

 chisms of Father Pareja. In May, Dj-. Swanton visited 

 New York in order to examine rare Timucua works in the 

 Buckingham Smith collection of the New York Historical 

 Society. Tlu'ough Ihe couriesy of Ihis society and of the 

 New York Public Tjibrary arrangements have been made 

 for furnishing photostat copies of these rare and impor- 

 tant books, and Ihe repr'oductions were in preparation at 

 the close of the fiscal year. 



In connection with the researches of Dr. Swanton it is 

 gratifying to report that he was awarded last si)ring the 

 second Ijoubat prize in recognition of his two i)ublica- 

 tions— " Tlingit Myths and Texts " and " Indian Ti'ibes 

 of the Lowei' Mississippi Valley and AdjacH'ut Coast of 

 the Gulf of Mexico " — both issued by the bureau. 



Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, devoted her time to 

 the conclusion of bei' researches among Ihe Tewa Indians 

 of New Mexico and to the i)reparalion of a ])aper on ibat 

 interesting and conservative people. A preliminary table 



