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material and establisliing the phonetic shifts of the language. It 

 also meant codifying in final form a number of Cheyenne shifts which 

 he had partially worked out in previous years. It also involved 

 clarifying some shifts in Arapaho and Atsina. The special novelty 

 consists in showing how at least certain Algonquian languages became 

 divergent simply by the operation of complex and far-reaching 

 phonetic shifts. The manuscript was completed before the end of 

 the fiscal year. Toward the close of the fiscal year Dr. Michelson 

 was engaged in working out the phonetic shifts in Natick, an extinct 

 Algonquian language, on the basis of Trumbull's Dictionary. 



During the first 6 months of the fiscal year, Dr. John P. Harrington, 

 ethnologist, continued his field studies among the Mission Indians of 

 California, obtaining a rather exhaustive set of notes to accompany 

 the publication of the Boscana manuscript recently discovered by him. 

 It is the long-lost original of the only complete report ever written by 

 a Franciscan missionary on the ethnology of the California Indians. 

 It was written by the Rev. Jeronimo Boscana at San Juan Capistrano 

 Mission on the coast of southern California in 1822, and is a delight- 

 fully variant version of the Boscana account entitled '^ Chinigchinich ", 

 published in English translation by Alfred Robinson as an appendix 

 to his Life in California in 1846. The task of taking this Spanish 

 original to the oldest surviving Indians and eliciting their comment 

 on its many detailed statements proved fascinating and often went 

 far beyond the scope of the original., » 



The following 5 months were spent in Washington, D. C, in elab- 

 oration of field material. A very literal and careful translation of 

 the newly found manuscript was made, and this translation was 

 published in the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 92, 

 No. 4. Copy of the Spanish text has been prepared, and this with 

 the notes, which exceed several times the bulk of the manuscript, will 

 constitute a later publication by the Smithsonian Institution. 



Leaving Washington for California early in June, Dr. Harrington 

 spent 17 days with an old Indian informant who contributed much 

 to the Boscana notes and gave considerable other important infor- 

 mation. The end of the fiscal year found him still in the field. 



Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., archeologist, was on leave of absence 

 from the Bureau during the months of July and August 1933. During 

 this time he excavated the remains of a small village of the Pueblo I 

 type. The investigations were carried on Sji miles south of Allan- 

 town, Ariz., on a portion of the site where researches were conducted 

 in the field seasons of 1931, 1932. The 1933 work was done under 

 the auspices of the Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, N. Mex., 

 as a part of its program of field training for graduate students. The 

 Laboratory and the Bureau cooperated in the investigations of 1931 

 and the Bureau sponsored those of 1932. Despite its small size, the 



