NO. 30 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, 1912 3S 
and the more northern islands. The indications are that the people 
who made the shell heaps at Erin were not Caribs, but 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 
study 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. Vincent for the purpose of con- 
tinuing his studies. 
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Fic. 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 Michelson. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE Fox INDIANS oF IowA, AND OTHER TRIBES, BY Dr. 
TruMAN MICHELSON 
In January, 1912, Dr. Michelson visited the Carlisle non-reser- 
vation Indian School to obtain information on 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 those gathered by the late Dr. William Jones, and 
this fact helps to bring out more clearly how necessary it is that all 
