REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 61 



has not yet been set down in full, but all of the essential points have 

 been typewritten on cards. 



A paper of 44 pages has been prepared in elaboration of some 

 recent discoveries regarding the Siouan peoples, discoveries which 

 have an especial bearing on the relationship of the various Siouan 

 groups to one another. . 



A small amount of work has been done in continuance of Doctor 

 Swanton's investigations into the economic basis of American Indian 

 life, particularly a study of aboriginal trails and trade routes. 



The work of collecting stories dealing with the old clan divisions 

 of the Chickasaw Indians, undertaken by a Chickasaw at Doctor 

 Swanton's suggestion, has met with gratifying success, 10 or 12 such 

 stories having already been sent in. 



During the fiscal year Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, was engaged 

 entirely in office work. 



In his report for the fiscal year 19'21 it was stated that a number 

 of Chippewa and Ottawa texts had been obtained in 1900 from 

 Mr. John Miscogeon, an Ottawa mixed blood, then in Washington, 

 D. C, and that Mr. George Gabaoosa, a mixed-blood Chippewa, had 

 been employed to amend and to supply the Chippewa versions of 

 these texts. He also amplified the texts by substantial additions. 

 This material covers 125 pages. Mr. Gabaoosa's fixed habit of writing 

 his native language by means of the alphabet employed by the mis- 

 sionaries made it needful that these texts thus written be translated 

 into the alphabet devised b}^ Maj. J. ^Y. Powell, founder of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology, for recording native Indian languages. 

 This work of transliteration is one of considerable difficulty, because 

 the aid of a native Chippewa speaker is not available in the office and 

 Mr, Hewitt does not speak Chippewa. 



In addition, Mr. Hewitt continued work in preparing the Musk- 

 hogean material detailed in his last report. 



Mr. Hewitt also continued his typing of the native Onondaga texts 

 of the second part of the Iroquoian Cosmology, the first part having 

 appeared in the twenty-first annual report of the bureau. There are 

 now 255 pages of text material in final form. 



As custodian of manuscripts Mr. Hewitt reports that no new lin- 

 guistic records were added to the material permanently in his charge. 

 Collaborators and others make temporary deposits of manuscripts 

 upon which work is being done, and these are not catalogued as of 

 permanent deposit. 



Mr. Hewitt spent much time and study in the preparation of data 



for official replies to correspondents of the bureau and of the Indian 



Office also, the latter by reference only. The scope of the inquiries 



covers almost the entire range of human interest, often quite outside 



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