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ing live at or near Odanah : Marten, Loon, Eagle, Bull Head, Bear, 

 Sturgeon, Great Lynx, Crane, Lynx, and Chicken. The chief be- 

 longs to the Loon gens ; a " head-man " to the Bear gens ; and the 

 messenger to the Marten gens. Li sharp contrast with the Foxes, 

 the gentes apparently have no special rituals. Exogamy is still prac- 

 ticed for the most part. It may be noted that cross-cousins as well 

 as parallel cousins are not allowed to marry. It should be stated 

 that, as with the Menomini, the offspring of a white man and an 

 Ojibwa woman belongs to the Chicken gens. Although almost 

 all of the Ojibwa at Odanah are Christians. Dr. Michelson found 



Fig. 113. — Some birch-bark dwellings of the Ojibwa. From a postal 

 card purchased at Ashland, Wisconsin. The scene obviously is at the 

 pageant held at Apostles" Islands. 



that they have a vivid recollection of their ancient religious rites, 

 and he obtained detailed information on some of these. On Sep- 

 tember 2, Dr. Michelson proceeded to the vicinity of L'Anse, Michi- 

 gan, where he located a family of Stockbridge Indians, but none 

 spoke their own language. He observed that the Ojibwa dialects 

 spoken at Odanah and in the vicinity of L'Anse dift'ers markedly 

 in some respects from the western dialects, to judge from Jones' 

 Ojibwa Texts. On September 12, Dr. Michelson went to Mt. 

 Pleasant, Michigan, where he began a preliminary survey of the 

 Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi of the neighborhood. 



