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Islands in Mr. Parish's yacht, the Esperanza. Upon the 

 completion of this reconnaissance a visit was made to La- 

 cooche, Fla., where a small mound was excavated. Mr. 

 Stirling next proceeded to Tampa Bay, where a large sand 

 mound near Safety Harbor was excavated. 



Work was continued on the preparation of manuscript 

 descriptive of the field work, and a number of short articles 

 were prepared and published in various periodicals. Fre- 

 quent lectures on anthropological topics were given during 

 the year before various scientific and educational bodies. 



Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, conducted field work 

 during July and August, 1929, in Mississippi and Oklahoma. 

 He collected further ethnological material from the Missis- 

 sippi Choctaw, and corrected notes that were obtained the 

 year before. In Oklahoma Doctor Swanton visited most 

 of the existing Square Grounds of the Creeks, witnessed 

 parts of several ceremonies, and obtained descriptions of 

 their ceremonial arrangement. The Choctaw material has 

 been incorporated in his manuscript, Source Book for the 

 Social and Ceremonial Customs of the Choctaw, which is 

 ready for publication. The data Doctor Swanton collected 

 on Creek Square Grounds will form a short paper and is 

 ready for publication. 



Doctor Swanton corrected throughout the words of his 

 Timucua dictionary, completing work begun last year; and 

 in addition he began the work of translating them, with the 

 help of the original Timucua-Si^anish religious works in 

 which the material is preserved. Further work was done on 

 the map of Indian tribes, the scope of which has been ex- 

 tended so as to cover Mexico, Central America, and the 

 West Indies; the accompanying text has also been amplified. 

 On June 20 Doctor Swanton left Washington to resume field 

 work in the State of Louisiana. 



On July 1, 1929, Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, went 

 to Shawnee, Okla., to continue his study of the Algonquian 

 Tribes of that State, where he obtained a fairly representa- 

 tive collection of Kickapoo mythology. From these studies 

 Doctor Michelson found that his statement made 14 years 

 ago that Kickapoo mythology, on the whole, is closest to 



