130 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 
yet the Peoria Indians are unaware of their origin. While among 
the Peoria some incidental notes on Shawnee sociology and folklore 
were obtained by Dr. Michelson. After about four weeks’ stay 
in Oklahoma he returned to Iowa to renew his investigations 
among the Sauk and Fox at Tama. There the phonetic restora- 
tion of a number of texts on minor sacred packs pertaining to 
the White, Buffalo Dance was accomplished, and about 200 pages 
of the extremely long myth of the Fox culture-hero were also 
restored. Dr. Michelson witnessed most of the ceremonies that 
Fic. 127—Some of the descendants of the Fox Chief Poweshiek. 
were performed when the Potawatomi of Wisconsin presented the 
Foxes with a new drum of the so-called “ Religion Dance.” 
RESEARCHES BY DR. JOHN R. SWANTON 
The only undertaking in the nature of field-work by Dr. John R. 
Swanton during the year was a visit to Chicago in September to 
make an examination of the manuscript material in the Ayer collec- 
tion of Americana in the Newberry Library. This occupied less 
than a week, but proved rich in results, the most important of which 
was the discovery of a French memoir containing the best Karankawa 
