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SECONDARY GRANTS. 



The following is a record of the grants, not alread}^ mentioned, 

 made under the allotment of $200,000 for minor grants. A few 

 reports on grants made in 1902-1903 are included, as the work under 

 them was continued into the fiscal year 1 903-1 904 : 



ANTHROPOLOGY. 



George A. Dorsey, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 111. Grant 

 No. 97. For etJuiological investigation among the tribes of the 

 Caddoa7i stock. $2,500. 



Abstract of Report. — As a result of the year's investigations the 

 conditions of the investigation of the mythologies of the Caddoan 

 tribes is as follows: The manuscript entitled "Traditions of the 

 Skidi Pawnee " has been printed by Houghton, MifRin & Company 

 as volume 8 of the Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society ; 

 the manuscript entitled ' ' The Traditions of the Arikara ' ' has 

 been printed ; the manuscript containing the investigations among 

 the Wichita, entitled "The Mythology of the Wichita," and em- 

 bracing an extended introduction, which may be regarded as a 

 preliminary report on the social organization of this tribe, has been 

 submitted to the Institution, is being printed, and will soon be dis- 

 tributed ; the investigation of the traditions of the Chaui, Kitka- 

 hahki, and Pittahauirata bands of the Pawnee has been completed 

 and the manuscript will be prepared for the printer this winter ; the 

 investigation of the mytholog}' of the Caddo is over half completed, 

 will be continued during the early part of the coming year, and the 

 manuscript will be submitted to the Institution some time next year. 



The result of the investigations among the ceremonies of the tribes 

 of the Caddoan stock is as follows c A preliminarj^ but somewhat 

 extended investigation has been made of the religious ceremonies of 

 the Wichita ; a large number of ceremonies not heretofore held for 

 many years have been witnessed among the Pawnee proper ; addi- 

 tional information has been gained about practically all of the great 

 so-called ' ' bundle ceremonies ' ' ; rituals filling about one hundred 

 phonographic cylinders have been added, these covering some of the 

 most important and most interesting ceremonies of the Skidi. De- 

 tailed information has been obtained of many of the most important 

 Skidi ceremonies, especially the Medicine Men's ceremony and the 

 ceremonies of the so-called "bundles" dedicated to the Morning 

 and Evening Stars and to the institution of the ofiice of warrior. 



