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Dumont de Montigny gives us an interesting description of the man- 

 ner in which the Biloxi and Pascagoula disposed of their dead, and in 

 the closing decade of the last century J. O. Dorsey collected some de- 

 tails regarding the social organization of the former. Little re- 

 mains of the Ofo except their remarakable history and a brief vocab- 

 ularly (Dorsey and Swanton, 1912). 



There is no extended treatment of the marginal tribe of Quapaw, 

 and we must rely upon the writings of early travelers such as Mar- 

 quette, the chroniclers of La Salle, Le Sueur, La Harpe, on Father 

 Poisson the Jesuit, some notes by Dumont de Montigny, and later 

 material from Thomas Nuttall. J. O. Dorsey published some notes 

 on their social organization. 



For the Cherokee the standard work is Mooney's Myths of the 

 Cherokee, which, including its notes, covers a very much wider field 

 than the title indicates. Mooney also published a smaller report on 

 The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, and collected a much greater 

 body of formulas, some of which have been published under the editor- 

 ship of Dr. Frans Olbrechts (Mooney and Olbrechts, 1932) , who added 

 much new material. In the Newberry Library, Chicago, is a con- 

 siderable body of unpublished notes by John Howard Payne. Besides 

 Mooney, the later history of the tribe has been treated at length by 

 Dr. Grant Foreman and Dr. Chapman J. Milling. Considering the 

 importance of the tribe, ethnological information regarding it is de- 

 cidedly meager. The best of the published sources is William Bartram, 

 to whose name we must add those of Timberlake, Adair, Haywood, 

 and Hicks. Studies of Cherokee social organization have been made 

 recently by Eggan, Gilbert, and Bloom, and an extensive paper by 

 Gilbert was published by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1943. 

 (See Gilbert, 1943.) 



The writings of Lawson and De Graffenried give our fullest notes 

 regarding the Tuscarora and their allies, and in modern times they 

 have been especially studied by J. N. B. Hewitt, himself of Tuscarora 

 descent. 



When we turn to the North Carolina Algonquians, our main reliance 

 is the writings of the Raleigh colonists, particularly Thomas Harlot's 

 First Plantation of Virginia, illustrated with John White's drawings, 

 while for the Powhatan Indians we must rely on the works of John 

 Smith, and AVilliam Strachey's Historic of Travaile into Virginia 

 Britannia, to which Robert Beverley's History of Virginia adds im- 

 portant items, though it is in part compiled from the works of Smith 

 and Hariot. Although mainly devoted to Maryland, Raphael Semmes' 

 Captains and Marines of Early Maryland throws much light on In- 

 dian life south of the Potomac. Along with Smith's narrative must 

 be placed the relations of Newport and Spelman, and work in this field 

 is now being pursued energetically by Dr. Maurice A. Mook. 



