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Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 4O.—Sweat liouse at Chiaha busk ground, Seminole Co., by Fig. 47.—Pakan talahassi busk ground, near Hanna, b\ Swanton. Indians of Polk County, Texas, in 1910. In May he also visited oneof the four surviving speakers of the Natchez language, near , and added considerably to the material, ethnological and NO. 30 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I912 43 philological, collected there in 1908 and 1910. He now has about 260manuscript pages of text, besides a larg
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Fig. 4O.—Sweat liouse at Chiaha busk ground, Seminole Co., by Fig. 47.—Pakan talahassi busk ground, near Hanna, b\ Swanton. Indians of Polk County, Texas, in 1910. In May he also visited oneof the four surviving speakers of the Natchez language, near , and added considerably to the material, ethnological and NO. 30 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I912 43 philological, collected there in 1908 and 1910. He now has about 260manuscript pages of text, besides a large vocabulary of this rapidlydying language. In the fall Dr. Swanton visited the Alabama Indians again, madefurther ethnological investigations, and recorded many pages oftexts in the Alabama and Koasati languages, besides correcting somewhich had been previously taken down. A short trip was also madeat this time to the Caddo Indians to determine the number of dialectsstill spoken among them. It was learned that the only two still inuse are Xadako and Kadohadacho, which vary very little, although
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