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the exception of the bhick ware of Santa Clara, the pottery of the 

 Tewa has greatly deteriorated. 



Mrs. Stevenson has been enabled to record the names of the sacred 

 mountains of the Tewa people, as well as the myths associated with 

 them. In their general beliefs and customs the Tewa are found to 

 be intermediate between the Taos and the Zuili, 



The beginning of the fiscal year found Dr. Truman Michelson, 

 ethnologist, engaged in an investigation among the Fox Indians near 

 Tama, Iowa, w^ith whom he remained until the middle of August, 

 when he proceeded to Oklahoma, where he initiated researches among 

 the Sauk Indians of that State. Dr. Michelson was very successful 

 in recording the myths and tales of the Foxes, which covered about 

 2,300 pages of texts. He obtained likewise some notes on the cere- 

 monial and social organization of that tribe, but these are neither 

 full nor complete, as the Foxes are, without exception, the most con- 

 servative of the Algonquian tribes w^ithin the United States. While 

 among the Sauk Dr. Michelson, with the aid of a native interpreter, 

 translated some of the Fox myths and tales collected in Iowa, but 

 his chief work in Oklahoma consisted of gaining an insight into the 

 Sauk ceremonial and social organization. He also translated, with 

 the assistance of a Sauk, the Kickapoo texts collected by the late Dr. 

 William Jones, subsequently correcting the version with a Kickapoo 

 informant. The dialectic differences between Sauk, Fox, and Kicka- 

 poo are not great, and as few of the Mexican Kickapoo now s]3eak 

 any but broken English, a Sauk w^as employed in making the first 

 draft of the translation. 



Among the Shaw-nee of Oklahoma Dr. Miclielson's work was pri- 

 marily linguistic. The results confirmed his opinion, gathered from 

 the late Dr. Gatschet's notes and texts, that the Shawnee language is 

 most intimately connected with Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo, on the one 

 hand, and with the Abnaki dialects on the other. He also gathered 

 some Shawnee myths, partly in texts, partly on the phonograph, and 

 a beginning was made on the Shawnee social organization. It was 

 found that, apparently, the larger divisions are not phratries, nor 

 are their clans exogamous, as already noted by Dr. Gatschet, despite 

 the ordinary view\ The question of exogamy or endogamy among 

 the Shawnee is fixed merely by blood relationship. 



Among the Mexican Kickapoo Dr. Michelson gathered some addi- 

 tional texts, corrected the translations of Dr. Jones's Kickapoo texts, 

 as above noted, made observations on Kickapoo clan organization, 

 and gathered also linguistic data which shed further light on the 

 relations of the Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo dialects. 



Dr. Michelson returned to Washington about the middle of Decem- 

 ber and connnenced the elaboration of his field notes. In January he 

 visited the Carlisle Industrial School, where he procured lijiguistic 



