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Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, prepared for publication a 

 manuscript entitled 'A Sauk and Fox Sacred Pack." He also wrote 

 the Indian text of one of the great sacred packs of the Thimder gens 

 of the Fox Indians and worked out the English version thereof. 

 Doctor Michelson also prepared an Indian text, with English ver- 

 sion, of the Owl dance which belongs to the Bear gens. He began 

 translating a Fox text on the sacred pack named " Sakimage " which 

 belongs to the Bear gens of the Fox Indians and which Avas taken 

 care of by Pushetonequa, the last chief recognized by the Govern- 

 ment. He corrected the galley proofs and the first page proofs of 

 the fortieth annual report of the bureau, which made it possible to 

 incorporate some additional material appurtenant to the White 

 Buffalo Dance and Fox mortuary customs and beliefs. Doctor 

 Michelson employed Horace Powesheik to translate 1,000 pages of 

 Fox text which contains additional information on the Fox society 

 known as " Those Who AVorship the Little Spotted Buffalo." In 

 June Doctor Michelson went to Tama, Iowa, to renew his researches 

 among the Algonquian Tribe of tliat State. He verified the new" 

 data on the Fox society named above, and some Fox texts on the 

 Buffalo Head Dance of the Thunder gens, obtaining much additional 

 information of this dance and other information on the Thunder 

 gens. A translation of the Fox text on the Sturgeon Avas obtained 

 as well as certain information on the Wolf gens. 



During the fiscal year Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, w^as 

 engaged in the preparation for publication of his material on the 

 excavation and early history of the Burton Mound Indian village 

 situated at Santa Barbara, Calif., the principal rancheria of the 

 Santa Barbara Indians. The Ambassador Hotel, which had stood 

 on the mound for many years, and had completely barred it to scien- 

 tific investigation, was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1921. By 

 joint arrangement with the Museum of the American Indian, a 

 thorough excavation of this mound was made, and a large and attrac- 

 tive collection of artifacts was obtained, as well as a mass of archeo- 

 logical and historical material. Mr. Harrington completed the elab- 

 oration of this material and it was submitted for publication, includ- 

 ing maps and numerous photographs. 



The old Indian name for the Burton Mound village was Syujtun. 

 Mr. Harrington's work revealed the interesting fact, not previously 

 pointed out, that this rancheria is mentioned four times in the 

 " Relacion " of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who discovered Alta Cali- 

 fornia in 1542. Father Crespi, who kept the diary of the Portola 

 expedition, Avriting in 1769, describes this village in some detail. 

 Other early accounts tell that Yanonalit, its chief, had under him 

 12 other villages besides the Burton Mound. After the Indian popu- 



