20 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1922. 



Dr. John R. SAvanton continued work on his dictionaries of the 

 Hitchiti and Alabama hmguages. Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt devoted 

 his time to a number of Chippewa and Ottawa texts, and in con- 

 tinuing the preparation of the second part of his work on Iro- 

 quoian Cosmologj', the fii-st jjart of which has ah'eady been pub- 

 lished by the bureau. Mr. Francis La Flesche completed and 

 turned in during the year the manuscript of the second volume of 

 his publication on The Osage Tribe. Dr. Truman Michelson car- 

 ried on field work among the Fox Indians of Iowa, paying special 

 attention to the linguistic relations of this and neighboring tribes. 

 Mr. J. P. Harrington completed his bulletin on the Kiowa language 

 and conducted field work among the Indians of the Chumaslian 

 area of California, laying special emphasis on the place names, 

 material culture, and language. 



Under the head of special researches, the chief of the bureau 

 describes the work of Miss Frances Densmore on Indian music. 

 During the year she recorded songs among the Yuma, Cocopa, and 

 Yaqui tribes, making a total of nine tribes among whom this work 

 has been done. Mr. W. E. Myer investigated Indian sites in South 

 Dakota and western Missouri known to have been occupied by the 

 Omahas and Osages in early historic times after they had come 

 in contact with the whites but before they had been changed thereby 

 to any considerable extent. 



Several other interesting special researches are reviewed in the 

 appendix on the bureau, among them field work by Mr, D. I. 

 Bushnell, Jr., on the Cahokia mounds in Illinois; by Mr. B. S. Guha, 

 among the Utes and the Navaho at Towoac, Colo., and Shiprock, 

 N. Mex. ; and by Mr. John L. Baer on ])ictographic rocks in the 

 Susquehanna River. 



INTERXATIOXAL EXCHANGES. 



During the year the number of packages of scientific and gov- 

 ernmental publications sent abroad and received from foreign coun- 

 tries totaled 592,600 pounds. Although these figures show a de- 

 crease from the previous year, on account of the fact that ship- 

 ments to Germany were resumed during that year and most of the 

 material accumulated during the war w-as sent out, nevertheless 

 there is an increase of 41,490 packages over the number sent out 

 in 1914, the last j^ear before the World War, showing that there 

 is a steady groAvth in the work of the International Exchange 

 service. 



Exchange relations were reopened during the year with Ru- 

 mania and Yugoslavia, the agencies in these countries being, re- 

 spectively, the Institutul Meteorological Central at Bukharest, and 

 the Academie Royale Serbe des Sciences et des Arts, Belgrade. 



