52 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 



he visited the small body of Indians in Seminole County who still 

 i-etain a speaking knowledge of Hitchiti, and added about -iO pages 

 of text to that previously obtained, besides correcting a portion of 

 Gatschet's Hitchiti vocabulary. He made an arrangement with an 

 interpreter by which 100 pages of additional text were received after 

 his return to Washington. 



While some time was devoted to studies of the Alabama, Hitchiti, 

 and Choctaw languages, most of Dr. Swanton's attention while in 

 the office during the year was centered on two particular undertak- 

 ings. One of these was the proof reading of the Choctaw-English 

 section of Byington's Choctaw Dictionary, and the compilation, with 

 the efficient help of Miss M. C. Rollins, of an English-Choctaw in- 

 dex, w'hich will comprise about 350 printed pages, to accompany it. 

 The other was work on the first draft of an extended report on the 

 Creek confederacy, of which the historical part, consisting of 300 

 typewritten pages, is practically completed. 



At the beginning of the year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, 

 undertook the work of editing and copying the Seneca text " Shago- 

 wenothn, or The Spirit of the Tides," which was recorded by him in 

 the form of field notes in 1896 on the Cattaraugus Reservation, Xew 

 York. This particular piece of work, forming a text of 3,692 native 

 words, was completed in August, 1913. The task of making a literal, 

 almost an etymological, interlinear translation of this text was next 

 undertaken and was completed in November, yielding an aggregate 

 of 11,411 English words in the rendering. The other of the two 

 native texts in Seneca, " Doadanegen and Hotkwisdadegena," which 

 was recorded in the form of field notes by Mr. Hewitt in 1896, was 

 next edited and copied; this work was completed b}'^ the close of 

 December and consists of 4,888 native Seneca words. The literal 

 interlinear translation of this text then taken up was completed in 

 February, 1914, making 14,664 English words in the rendering. 



On finishing these translations Mr. Hewitt commenced the read- 

 ing and digesting of the Seneca material of the late Jeremiah 

 Curtin for the purpose of providing notes and explanations to the 

 stories, a task that was made the more difficult by the fact that Mr. 

 Curtin's field notes of explanation and identification are not avail- 

 able. One of the longest of the stories collected by Mr. Curtin, 

 " Doonogaes and TsodiqgAvadon," comprising 149 typew^ritten pages, 

 required 144 notes varying in length *from three or four lines to 

 several pages: but this story is of exceptional length. The entire 

 Curtin material has now been reread and annotated. Mr. Hewitt 

 also completed the notes for his introduction to the " Seneca Myths 

 and Fiction," and the final writing was almost finished by the close 

 of the year. 



