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man shortly after giving the rituals has therefore added to the diffi- 

 culties attending the task of recording these ancient rites. 



Notwithstanding these obstacles, Mr. La Flesche succeeded, during 

 his visit to the Osage Keservation in April and May, in securing 

 from old Sho"'gemo"i" the version of the Fasting ritual belonging to 

 the Tsizhu Peace gens, of which he is a member. The wigie and 

 the words of the songs have been transcribed from the dictaphone, 

 but are not yet typewritten, and the music of the songs is also to be 

 transcribed. Sho^'gemo^i'^ likewise gave the Child-naming ritual 

 belonging to his gens, in which there are tAvo wigie, one containing 

 227 lines and the other 94. In addition to these rituals, Sho"'- 

 gemo°i°, after considerable hesitancy, recounted the " Seven and 

 Six" (13) coups he is always called on to recount when any 

 No'''ho"zhi"ga of the Ho'^'ga division performs the ceremonies of 

 some of the war rites. For this service he is paid a horse and 

 goods amounting in value from $125 to $150. 



Mr. La Flesche also secured from Waxthizhi information concern- 

 ing the duties of the two hereditary chiefs of the Osage tribe, the 

 gentes from which they were chosen, and how their orders were 

 enforced. He also obtained from Watsemo"!'' two wigie, one recited 

 by him at the ceremonies of the war rites, and the other by the 

 N6°ho°zhi"ga of the H6°ga Ahiuto" gens. 



In these studies Mr. La Flesche was materially assisted by 

 Washoshe and his wife, who have both overcome their aversion to 

 telling of the rites. Washoshe resigned from the N6"ho"zhi"ga 

 order because of the injustice of its members toward a woman whom 

 he selected to weave ceremonially the rush-mat shrine for a waxobe 

 when he was taking the Qathadse degree. This man presented to 

 Mr. La Flesche a mnemonic stick owned by his father and gave the 

 titles of the groups of lines marked on the stick, each of which 

 represents a group of songs. This mnemonic stick will be placed in 

 the National Museum with the Osage collection. 



Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, spent the entire fiscal year in 

 making an exhaustive study of the Indians of the Chumashan lin- 

 guistic stock of southern California. Three different bases have 

 been established for working with informants and elaborating the 

 notes. The period from July to October, inclusive, was spent at 

 San Diego, Cal., where every facility for the work was granted by 

 the courtesy of the Panama-California Exposition; November to 

 March, inclusive, at the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles ; and April 

 to June, inclusive, at Santa Ynez. The month of January, 1916, was 

 spent at Berkeley, Cal., where, through the courtesy of the Ban- 

 croft Library of the University of California, various linguistic 

 manuscripts and historical archives pertaining to the Chumashan 

 stock were studies and copied. During the period named more than 



