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and the more northern islands. The indications are that the people 

 who made the shell heaps at Erin were not Caribs, hut belonged to a 

 stock allied to that of prehistoric Porto Rico of which there were 

 several subdivisions in the West Indies. 



Detailed reports of Doctor Fewkes's excavations have not been 

 received in time for incorporation in this article, but to judge from 

 the results obtained during the short period spent in Trinidad prior 

 to the time his report was received, there is every prospect that the 

 stud)' will meet with great success, both from the point of view of 

 subjective material and in collections obtained. At last account, 

 Doctor Fewkes had departed for St. \ incent for the purpose of con- 

 tinuing: his studies. 



Fig. 34. — A Delaware meeting house, near Copan, Oklahoma in which the 

 Annual Ceremony, the most sacred institution of the Delawares, is held. Pho- 

 tograph by Michelsi >n. 



Observations on the Fox Indians of Iowa, and Other Tribes, r\ Dr. 



Truman M k hei.son 



In January, 1912, Dr. Michelson visited the Carlisle non-reser- 

 vation Indian School to obtain information mi several Algonquian 

 languages, and in July went among the Fox Indians at Tama, Iowa, 

 from whom a large body of mythological data was obtained. The 

 notes made during this season and the preceding one cover some 

 seven thousand pages. When completely translated, it will make 

 available one of the most exhaustive collections of the mythology of 

 any American Indian tribe. It is noteworthy that these tales differ 

 stylistically from tho.se gathered by the late Dr. William [ones, and 

 this fact helps to bring out more clearly how necessary it i> that all 



