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SMITHSONIAN KX I'LOKATIONS, I925 



III 



shows a typical wigwam circle on top of Milyahu. The Milyahu 

 cemetery has unfortunately heen washed away by the arroyo. 



On a hill on the Santa Maria ranch. Mr. Harrington discovered 

 an Indian fortification wall (fig. iii) which is evidently in much 

 the same condition as when it was abandoned. The rocks have 

 been piled to form a parapet five feet or more in height, the wall 

 forming a corral around the top of the hill. It was used for outlook- 

 purposes. 



Fig. III. — Old Indian fortification works on the crest of the liill west of 

 the Santa Maria ranch house. The wall of piled up rocks forms a parapet 

 around the top of the hill, and was used as a lookout hy the ancient Indian 

 inhabitants. 



Besides obtaining many unique traditional songs, ^Ir. Harring- 

 ton devoted special attention to pictographs, both ])hotographing 

 them and tracing them off full size on thin paper, so that thev can 

 be reproduced in their natural colors. 



STUDIES OF THE FOX .'KND OJIBW-.-^ INDIANS 



Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist. Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, left Washington about the middle of June, 1925, to renew 

 his researches among the Fox Indians near Tama, Iowa. There he 

 verified a number of texts previously obtained on various cere- 

 monials; he also procured additional information on several sacred 



