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ethnological researches in the office. Dr. Truman Michelson began 

 the year conducting ethnological researches among the Fox Indians 

 of Iowa, where he collected sufficient material for a manuscript on 

 the origin of one of the Fox societies. Tribal dissensions cut short 

 Doctor Michelson's stay among the Fox and he undertook a recon- 

 naissance among the Potawatomi of Wisconsin, the Chippewa at 

 Reserve in the same State, the Ottawa of Michigan, the Delaware- 

 Munsee of Lower Canada, and the Montagnais of Lake St. John. 

 In May, 1923, he left for the field to make a reconnaissance of the 

 Algonquian tribes of eastern United States and Canada, including 

 the Labrador peninsula. 



Mr. John P. Harrington prepared several manuscripts for pub- 

 lication during the year, and carried out linguistic researches with 

 Mr. Cipriano Alvarado, a Quiche Indian of Guatemala. In May, 

 1923, Mr. Harrington went to Santa Barbara, Calif., for the pur- 

 pose of continuing his researches on the Indians of that State. He 

 secured a large quantity of manuscript material bearing on myths, 

 place names, historical notes, early life and customs, genealogies, and 

 Indian songs. He also participated in the excavation of the famous 

 Burton Mound on the beach at Santa Barbara, which resulted in the 

 discovery of a great mass of Indian skeletons, trinkets, and utensils. 

 Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt completed two manuscripts for publication, 

 and in May, 1923, left for ethnological field work among the Six 

 Nations of Iroquois near Brantford, Ontario, Canada, where he 

 elaborated and revised texts recorded there previously and also 

 recorded much valuable information relating to the institutions of 

 the league. Later he visited the Onondaga Reservation near Syra- 

 cuse, N. Y. Mr. Francis La Flesche was engaged during most 

 of the year in assembling his notes for the third volume of his work 

 on the Osage Tribe. 



The report on the bureau then discusses, under special researches, 

 the work of Miss Frances Densmore on the Indian music of the 

 Yuma, Mohave, and Papago Tribes ; the archeological investigations 

 by Mr. W. E. Myer of ancient Indian mounds in central Tennessee ; 

 archeological work on the Stratman cave in Maries County, Mo., 

 by Mr. Gerard Fowke; and field studies by Mr. John L. Baer on 

 the banner stones and pictographs in the Susquehanna River region, 

 Pennsylvania. 



The bureau published during the year two annual reports with 

 lengthy accompanying papers and two bulletins. Several other 

 publications were in press at the close of the year. Of the bureau 

 series, there were distributed during the year a total of 17,694 

 copies. 



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