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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1922. 
  

  

  Bureau 
  of 
  American 
  Ethnology, 
  but 
  many 
  are 
  only 
  requests 
  for 
  the 
  

   derivation 
  of 
  some 
  alleged 
  native 
  Indian 
  place 
  or 
  proper 
  name, 
  often 
  

   greatly 
  Anglicized 
  and 
  mutilated. 
  Some 
  of 
  these 
  inquiries 
  require 
  

   more 
  than 
  a 
  day's 
  work 
  to 
  answer, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  sometimes 
  necessary 
  to 
  visit 
  

   the 
  Congressional 
  Library 
  in 
  search 
  of 
  data. 
  Data 
  for 
  more 
  than 
  

   75 
  such 
  inquiries 
  were 
  prepared. 
  

  

  Immediately 
  following 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  James 
  Mooney, 
  

   Mr. 
  Hewitt 
  assisted 
  Mrs. 
  Mooney 
  in 
  assorting 
  and 
  separating 
  the 
  

   personal 
  letters 
  and 
  papers 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Mooney, 
  some 
  in 
  advanced 
  stages 
  

   of 
  preparation 
  (the 
  accumulation 
  of 
  more 
  than 
  30 
  years' 
  activity 
  in 
  

   an 
  official 
  capacity), 
  from 
  those 
  which 
  by 
  their 
  nature 
  are 
  official 
  

   documents, 
  and 
  correspondence 
  and 
  photographs. 
  More 
  than 
  a 
  week 
  

   was 
  devoted 
  to 
  this 
  work. 
  

  

  Before 
  placing 
  this 
  material 
  in 
  the 
  new 
  store-room 
  a 
  rough 
  classi- 
  

   fication 
  was 
  made 
  of 
  it. 
  Five 
  main 
  groups 
  were 
  made, 
  correspond- 
  

   ing 
  roughly 
  with 
  the 
  rive 
  chief 
  papers 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Mooney 
  had 
  under 
  

   way 
  for 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  years 
  before 
  his 
  demise, 
  namely, 
  (a) 
  A 
  Study 
  of 
  

   the 
  Peyote 
  and 
  Its 
  Accompanying 
  Religious 
  Cult; 
  (b) 
  A 
  Monograph 
  

   on 
  the 
  Population 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  Tribes 
  When 
  First 
  Known; 
  (c) 
  A 
  

   Paper 
  on 
  Cherokee 
  Medical 
  Formulas 
  Recorded 
  in 
  the 
  Sequoya 
  

   Alphabet 
  by 
  Native 
  Priests; 
  (d) 
  Kiowa 
  Heraldry; 
  and 
  (e) 
  A 
  Study 
  

   of 
  the 
  Che}eniio 
  and 
  Arapaho 
  Shields. 
  Owing 
  to 
  the 
  peculiar 
  chi- 
  

   rography 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Mooney 
  and 
  his 
  excessive 
  use 
  of 
  abbreviations 
  pecu- 
  

   liar 
  to 
  himself, 
  this 
  task 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  most 
  tedious 
  and 
  difficult 
  one. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hewitt, 
  who 
  represents 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution 
  on 
  the 
  

   United 
  States 
  Geographic 
  Board, 
  attended 
  all 
  its 
  regular 
  meetings 
  

   except 
  one 
  and 
  all 
  the 
  special 
  meetings 
  of 
  the 
  board. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Francis 
  La 
  Flesche, 
  ethnologist, 
  continued 
  during 
  the 
  fiscal 
  

   year 
  the 
  task 
  of 
  assembling 
  his 
  notes 
  for 
  the 
  second 
  volume 
  of 
  his 
  

   work 
  on 
  The 
  Osage 
  Tribe. 
  The 
  manuscript 
  for 
  the 
  second 
  volume, 
  

   which 
  embraces 
  two 
  versions 
  of 
  an 
  ancient 
  Osage 
  ritual 
  entitled, 
  

   "No 
  n 
  -zhi 
  n 
  -zho 
  n 
  Wa-tho 
  n 
  ," 
  Songs 
  of 
  the 
  Rite 
  of 
  Vigil, 
  was 
  com- 
  

   pleted 
  and 
  turned 
  in 
  to 
  the 
  bureau 
  on 
  February 
  25, 
  1922, 
  where 
  it 
  

   awaits 
  publication. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  version 
  of 
  this 
  ritual, 
  which 
  is 
  counted 
  as 
  next 
  in 
  im- 
  

   portance 
  to 
  the 
  Hearing 
  of 
  the 
  Sayings 
  of 
  the 
  Ancient 
  Men, 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  in 
  the 
  thirty-sixth 
  annual 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  bureau, 
  was 
  given 
  by 
  

   Wa-xthi-zhi 
  of 
  the 
  Puma 
  gens 
  of 
  the 
  Osage. 
  This 
  man 
  had 
  learned 
  

   the 
  ritual 
  from 
  his 
  father, 
  Wa-tlxu-ts'aga-zhi, 
  who 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  

   been 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  informed 
  No 
  n 
  '-ho 
  n 
  -zhi 
  n 
  -ga 
  in 
  the 
  tribal 
  rites. 
  

   With 
  some 
  difficulty 
  Mr. 
  La 
  Flesche 
  managed 
  to 
  persuade 
  Sho"'-ge- 
  

   mo 
  n 
  -i 
  n 
  , 
  of 
  the 
  Peacemaker 
  gens, 
  a 
  more 
  conservative 
  man 
  than 
  Wa- 
  

   xthi-zhi, 
  to 
  give 
  the 
  second 
  version, 
  which 
  belongs 
  to 
  his 
  gens. 
  As 
  

   this 
  ritual 
  pertains 
  to 
  war, 
  old 
  Sho 
  n 
  '-ge-mo 
  n 
  -i 
  n 
  desired 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  clearly 
  

  

  