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A Suti Dance among the Plains Crcc Indians 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELD WORK FOR THE YEAR 



Bi/ Clark Wisslcr 



THE field investigations of the ;inthroj)()l()<;ieal stall' ha\e in tiie main 

 been directed toward the solntion of one general problem, the 

 historical relations of enltures up and down the central portions 

 of the United States and Canada. A few years ago this investigation began 

 with simultaneous visits to the Cree Indians around Hudson Bay, the Crow 



A Blac-kfool woman uraying to tlic selling sun. At one stage of the annual Sun Dance 

 old women come f'orwani with women and children for whom they call ui)on the Sun to 

 exercise fatlierly care during the year. Tlie Sun Dance was first observed by Dr. E. P. 

 Goddard on a MiLseimi expedition in 1911, and in .so far as it has never been reported 

 for this tribe may be said to be a discovery. 299 



