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No. 9 of that series. He also contributed several articles to the Ethno- 

 geographic Board for distribution to the armed forces. During the 

 year Mr. Stirling's paper entitled '^Origin Myth of Acoma and Other 

 Records" was issued as Bulletin 135 of the Bureau. 



Dr. John E. Swanton, ethnologist, devoted a considerable por- 

 tion of the year to the reading and correcting of galley and page x^roof 

 of his work entitled "The Indians of the Southeastern United States," 

 which is being published as Bulletin 137 of the Bureau. This will be a 

 volume of approximatel}^ 850 pages exclusive of the index. 



Some further work was done on the materials preserved from the 

 now extinct language of the Timucua Indians of Florida, but it was 

 decided to discontinue this for the present. These materials — con- 

 sisting of a catalog of Timucua words and English-Timucua index 

 to the same, photocopies of the religious works in Timucua and 

 Spanish printed in Mexico in the seventeenth century, and typed copies 

 of these with some interlinear translation — have been labeled care- 

 fully and placed in the manuscript vault. 



Time was also devoted to the extraction of ethnographical notes 

 from the volumes of Early Western Travels, edited by Reuben Gold 

 Thwaites. A paper entitled "Are Wars Inevitable?" was contributed 

 as No. 12 to the War Background Studies of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. A few investigations were undertaken for the Board on Geo- 

 graphical Names, of which Dr. Swanton is a member. 



Dr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, was occupied during the first 

 part of the year in an investigation of the Chiicotin languages of 

 northern California. The results of this work indicated that Chiicotin 

 was introduced into California from Canada in pre-European times, 

 but owing to the varying rate in time reckoning for the accomplish- 

 ment of linguistic changes, the length of Chiicotin occupancy in Cali- 

 fornia cannot be estimated. With the exception of a small area south 

 of the mouth of the Klamath River, Chiicotin occupies the entire 

 coastal region of northern California to the mouth of Usal Creek 

 in Mendocino County. In addition to the linguistic connections dis- 

 covered, local traditions were obtained linking the Chiicotin peoples 

 with a more northern group. Two separate stories were recorded 

 deriving the Hupa from the region north of the mouth of the Klamath 

 River, and one was obtained deriving the Indians of a part of the Eel 

 River drainage from the Hupa region. 



Since his return to Washington, Dr. Harrington has been engaged 

 in the preparation of material for the linguistic section of the Hand- 

 book of South American Indians. This work resulted in the discovery 

 that Wiloto is Tupi-Guarani, and also the very interesting finding 

 that Quechua is Hokan. The Hokan hitherto had been known to ex- 

 tend only to the Subtiaba language of the west coast of Central 

 America. Detailed studies of Quechua and of Cocama have been made 



