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300,000 words of manuscript material were obtained and elab- 

 orated. In addition to the grammatical and ethnological material 

 an exhaustive dictionary of the Ventureno is well under way, which 

 comprises some 8,000 cards. This is to be followed by similar dic- 

 tionaries for the other dialects. The most satisfactory feature of 

 the work was the collection of material on the supposedly extinct 

 dialects of San Luis Obispo and La Purisima. The Purisimeno 

 material consists mainly of w^ords and corrected vocabularies, while 

 on the Obispeiio important grammatical material Avas also obtained. 

 A large part of the material which still remains to be obtained de- 

 pends on the life of two very old informants, consequently it is most 

 important that Mr. Harrington continue his work in this immediate 

 field until the opportunities are exhausted. 



The beginning of the fiscal year found Dr. Truman Michelson, eth- 

 nologist, at Tama, Iowa, engaged in continuing his researches among 

 the Fox Indians, which consisted mainly of recording sociological 

 data and ritualistic origin myths. In August, Dr. Michelson pro- 

 ceeded to Oklahoma for the purpose of investigating the sociology 

 and phonetics of the Sauk Indians, as well as of obtaining transla- 

 tions of Fox texts pertaining especially to ritualistic origin myths. 

 After successfully concluding this work. Dr. Michelson returned to 

 Washington in October, when he commenced the translation of the 

 textual material gathered in the field. Advantage was taken of the 

 presence in Washington of a deputation of Piegan in obtaining a de- 

 tailed knowledge of Piegan terms of relationship. From these 

 studies Dr. Michelson determined that the lists of relationship terms 

 recorded by Lewis H. Morgan, as well as by other investigators, re- 

 quire revision. He also commenced to arrange the material gathered 

 by the late Dr. William Jones pertaining to the ethnology of the 

 Ojibwa Tribe, with a view of its publication as a bulletin of the 

 bureau. Toward the close of the year Dr. Michelson undertook to 

 restore phonetically the text of the White Buffalo dance of the Fox 

 Indians, which likewise is intended for bulletin publication. It is 

 believed that the results of this task will be ready for the printer 

 before the close of the calendar year. 



Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, special ethnologist, divided his time, as 

 in previous years, between field research and office work. On July 8 

 he left his winter headquarters at the United States training school 

 at Chemawa, Oreg., and proceeded to the Yakima Reservation, Wash., 

 where he revised, with the aid of the last Atfalati Indian, the 

 Kalapuya manuscript material collected in 1877 by the late Dr. A. S. 

 Gatschet of the bureau. This material, comprising 421 manuscript 

 pages, consists of vocables, stems, grammatical forms, and ethno- 

 logical and historical narratives, and its revision marked the comple- 



