2 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



National Kesearch Council, through its committee on State archeo- 

 logical surveys, of which Dr. Carl E. Guthe is chairman. To this he 

 contributed two papers, one entitled ''The Southeastern Indians of 

 History" and the other ''The Relation of the Southeast to General 

 Culture Problems of American Pre-History." He presided as presi- 

 dent of the American Anthropological Association over the sessions 

 of that body at its meeting at Atlantic City, N.J., December 28-30. 



Bulletin 108, entitled "A Dictionary of the Atakapa Language", 

 consisting largely of material collected by the late Albert S. Gatschet 

 but systematized and edited by Dr. Swanton, appeared during 

 the year. 



Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, was at work among the 

 Cheyenne and Arapaho at the beginning of the year. Among the 

 Cheyenne the prime object was to get an insight into their mythol- 

 ogy, though their sociology was not neglected. Among the Arapaho, 

 work was linguistic and sociological. He secured the personal narra- 

 tive of an aged southern Arapaho woman. An analysis shows clearly 

 that this is almost entirely institutional, closely following the tribal 

 pattern. With but few changes it might be the autobiography of 

 any aged Arapaho woman. On July 22 Dr. Michelson left for Tama, 

 Iowa, to renew researches among the Foxes in that vicinity. New 

 data on ceremonials were obtained and some older data verified. He 

 left Tama on August 8, stopping at Chicago to consult with some 

 anthropologists of that city and to inspect certain collections. 



While in the office Dr. Michelson prepared for publication by the 

 Bureau a manuscript entitled "When the War Chiefs Worship the 

 Wolf", which is to be combined with a paper entitled "Fox Miscel- 

 lany", which was prepared last year. Dr. Michelson worked out a 

 long series of phonetic shifts in Arapaho, which will ultimately be 

 published. He succeeded in finding Algonquian etj^mologies for a 

 host of Blackfoot words and stems; which contradicts the usual 

 assumption that Blackfoot vocabulary must be largely from outside 

 sources. A grant was made to Dr. Michelson by the National 

 Research Council whereby he could employ a technical assistant to 

 bring the late Dr. Jones' Fox and Ojibwa material into shape for 

 publication, and Mrs. Margaret Welpley, a former student of 

 Dr. Michelson's, was selected for this purpose. At the close of the 

 fiscal year all the Fox ethnological material was virtually ready for 

 publication. 



J. P. Harrington, ethnologist, spent the year in an endeavor to 

 rescue before it is too late what can still be learned of the culture of 

 the Indians of southern California and adjacent regions to the north 

 and east. Attention in this field naturally centered about the classic 

 work of Boscana published by Alfred Robinson in 1846, as Boscana's 

 work has never been thoroughly checked with modern Indians. 



