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of the most interesting features of the work, for, just as it can be 

 shown that the watermelon and muskmelon, for example, are not 

 native to the Tanoan Indians because designated by Spanish loan- 

 words or by mere descriptive terms, so it can be also demonstrated 

 linguistically that the Tanoans have adopted many features of the 

 Zufiian and Keresan religion. Even such fundamental conceptions 

 as Wenima, the abode of the dead, and Sipapu, the entrance to the 

 other world, have been taken over by the Tanoans, e. g., as Tewa 

 Wayima and Sip'o phe. , 



At the close of September Mr. Harrington returned to Washing- 

 ton and was engaged during the remainder of the year in the elabo- 

 ration of his material. Mr. Harrington also performed various 

 office duties during this period. 



In August, 1919, Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, renewed his 

 researches among the Fox Indians, which consisted exclusively of 

 working out a grammatical analysis of the Indian text of his manu- 

 script on the White Buffalo Dance, in order to make a vocabulary 

 for the same. He returned to Washington near the middle of Sep- 

 tember, when he resumed his Avork on the Indian text, as well as the 

 vocabulary. The manuscript was submitted in March, 1920. 



During the winter Dr. Michelson worked on the manuscript of the 

 White Buffalo Dance; he also spent some time on a rough transla- 

 tion of an autobiograj^hy of a Fox Indian woman written in the cur- 

 rent syllabary. This translation was based on a paraphrase in Eng- 

 lish written by Horace Poweshiek. In the middle of June he left 

 for Tama, Iowa, to restore the syllabary text phonetically, to further 

 work out a grammatical analysis to enable him to add a suitable 

 vocabulary, to elucidate a number of ethnological points, and to cor- 

 rect the translation in a number of places. By the close of the fiscal 

 year he entirely restored the text phonetically. 



In addition, Dr. Michelson has furnished data for official corre- 

 spondence. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES. 



In addition to the work of members of the staff mentioned in their 

 reports above, the bureau has employed others in ethnological and 

 archeological researches. 



Mr. Neil M. Judd, curator of American archeology in the United 

 States National Museum, was detailed in June to complete a report 

 on his work for the bureau in previous seasons in southeastern Utah. 

 At the time of writing no report on this work has been received. 



Miss Densmore resumed work on the Pawnee songs on September 

 1, 1919. Transcriptions and analyses of 58 Pawnee songs have been 

 submitted during the year. These comprise songs of the Morning 

 Star ceremony and of the Buffalo dance, the Bear dance, and the 



