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rived from a common ancestor, but had diiTerentiated at an early 

 date. Accordingly, Dr. Truman Michelson of the Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy left for South Carolina in May, 191 3. Unfortunately, though 

 a goodly number of individual words were collected, it was found 

 that barely half a dozen persons were left who could give simple 

 connected phrases, and only one or two who could give connected 



Fk;. 83. — An old Cheyenne who remem- 

 bers a little of the Sntaio language. Photo- 

 graph by Michelson. 



texts, but upon examination it was found that even the few texts 

 which Dr. Michelson collected were extremely fragmentary. Under 

 these conditions it is likely that it will not be possible to unravel the 

 structure of the language in detail, and hence the problems presented 

 above remain unsolved. 



In July, Dr. Michelson arrived in Tama, Iowa, to renew his re- 

 searches amongf the Fox Indians. After making: arrang-ements for 



