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rived from a common ancestor, but had differentiated at an early 
date. Accordingly, Dr. Truman Michelson of the Bureau of Ethnol- 
ogy left for South Carolina in May, 1913. Unfortunately, though 
a goodly number of individual words were collected, it was found 
that barely half a dozen persons were left who could give simple 
connected phrases, and only one or two who could give connected 
Fic. 83.—An old Cheyenne who remem- 
bers a little of the Sutaio language. Photo- 
graph by Michelson. 
texts, but upon examination it was found that even the few texts 
which Dr. Michelson collected were extremely fragmentary. Under 
these conditions it is likely that it will not be possible to unravel the 
structure of the language in detail, and hence the problems presented 
above remain unsolved. 
In July, Dr. Michelson arrived in Tama, Iowa, to renew his re- 
searches among the Fox Indians. After making arrangements for 
