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that every initiated person acquired his knowledge at great expense, 
has made it almost impossible to record the ceremonies in full from 
those who have been induced to speak about them. 
Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, continued her studies of the 
ethnology of the Tewa Indians of New Mexico, devoting special at- 
tention to the pueblo of San Ildefonso, with a view of elaborating 
her memoir on this group of tribes, which consists of about 400 pages 
of manuscript, material relating to almost every phase of Tewa cus- 
toms and beliefs having been added in whole or in part during 
the course of the year. Perhaps the most important of the new data 
gathered by Mrs. Stevenson on these interesting sedentary people 
relate to their ceremonies with respect to human sacrifice. The con- 
servatism of the Tewa and the secrecy with which most of their 
numerous rites are conducted make them a difficult subject of study 
and one requiring considerable time. Mrs. Stevenson’s memoir had 
reached such a stage of completion that at the close of the year she 
was making final arrangements for acquiring the materials still 
needed for illustrations. 
Shortly after the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Truman Michel- 
son, ethnologist, proceeded to Tama, Iowa, to renew his researches 
among the Fox Indians. After successfully commencing these studies 
he proceeded to Tongue River Reservation in Montana for the pur- 
pose of studying the remnant of the Sutaio tribe incorporated with 
the Cheyenne. It seems that some ethnological information can still 
be obtained in regard to specific Sutaio matters, but little of the lan- 
guage remains. Dr. Michelson compiled a fairly large Sutaio vocab- 
ulary, but fewer than a dozen words are fundamentally different 
from the corresponding Cheyenne terms. Such grammatical forms 
as could be obtained indicate that Sutaio sheds little or no light on 
the divergent Algonquian type of the Cheyenne language. 
Returning to Tama to renew his Fox studies, Dr. Michelson suc- 
ceeded in elucidating the social organization almost to completeness. 
It appears that the two major divisions of the tribe are not purely for 
rivalry in athletics, but rather are ceremonial. Dr. Michelson was 
successful also in obtaining the very long myths of the culture hero 
and the Mother of all the Earth. It is evident that the actual Fox 
society still corresponds in a measure to that given in the myths. 
In October Dr. Michelson proceeded to Kansas to investigate the 
Sauk and Fox of the Missouri. A reconnoissance only was made 
here, and some of the Fox material obtained at Tama was translated. 
In November he returned to Washington, and in January, 1914, vis- 
ited the Carlisle Indian School for the purpose of studying special 
points of grammar and phonetics with some of the Sauk and Fox 
pupils. Thence he made a trip to New York City, taking with him 
one of the pupils for the purpose of consulting Dr. Franz Boas, hon- 
