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teenth century and sent to William Dunbar, by whom they were 

 transmitted to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. 

 A considerable body of material has since been collected by Dr. A. S. 

 Gatschet, some by myself, and much fuller material, as yet unpub- 

 lished, by Dr. Morris Swadesh. For the Atakapa we are dependent 

 on the Duralde letter and a few notes in the manuscripts of early 

 French and American travelers and explorers. There are some 

 notes on the western Atakapa in the Spanish archives, but they are 

 decidedly scanty. For the language, see Gatschet and Swanton 

 (1932). 



Spaniards and English made contacts with several bands of Yuchi 

 at different periods and the accounts supplied by them are most inter- 

 esting, but the amount of ethnologic material is very small. Note- 

 worthy among these are Bartram's and Hawkins' descriptions of the 

 Yuchi towns among the Lower Creeks. Gatschet also collected some 

 materials regarding this peculiar tribe, but the outstanding work on 

 Yuchi etlmology has been done in modern times by Speck. An excel- 

 lent body of texts in the Yuchi language has been collected and pub- 

 lished by Giinter Wagner, and I have done considerable in Bureau of 

 American Ethnology Bulletin 73 (Swanton, 1922) to unravel the some- 

 what involved early history of these people. 



The Catawba Indians were once so prominent in colonial history 

 that it is surprising that no definite attempt was ever made in the 

 earlier period to prepare a description of them, yet it happens that the 

 first notes on any tribe in the Southeast which may pretend to the 

 term extensive come from a related people. This is the material ob- 

 tained by Peter Martyr d'Anghierra from the Indian Francisco of 

 Cliicora, probably a member of the Shakori tribe. The next important 

 narrative in time is that of John Lawson, who traversed the country 

 of the Siouan Indians of the two Carolinas and the Tuscarora in 

 1700-01, and third we may place the narrative of John Lederer, which 

 antedates Lawson's material by about 30 years. Catesby copies con- 

 siderably from Lawson but adds items from his own experience. 

 Brickell copies to the extent of plagiarism. We are also obliged to 

 rely considerably on Lawson and Lederer for our knowledge of the 

 Tutelo and other Virginia Siouans. More recently, notes have been 

 taken down from the survivors of these tribes by Hale, Sapir, Frach- 

 tenberg, and Speck. The greater part of the manuscript and early 

 printed material regarding them was published by Mooney in 

 The Siouan Tribes of the East, a work which is still an authority on 

 the subject. Recent Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins by 

 Bushnell provide an identification of the sites of the Manahoac and 

 Monacan towns and supply some notes regarding them. Mooney's 

 work has been supplemented most effectively now by the Red Caro- 

 linians of Dr. Milling. Nearly all of the later original work among 

 both the Catawba and Tutelo has been done by Speck. 



