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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 78 



Early the following morning, Mr. La Flesche and his assistant 

 appeared before Superintendent J. George Wright of the Agency 

 and made known to him the purpose of their visit. The Superin- 

 tendent immediately put one of his clerks to work to find the 

 record wanted. The clerk found a roll for the year 1877, which he 

 placed in Mr. La Flesche's hands. Then he and his friend sped 

 back to the little cottage where they began this work. 



Fig. 114. — I, Coneflower, life emblem of the Peacemaker gens. 2, Haircut 

 of the children of that gens to resemble the flower. 



The two put about three weeks of steady work on the revision of 

 the roll. The spelling of nearly all of the 1991 names found on 

 the roll had to be corrected, and to the name of each annuitant was 

 added the name of the gens to which he or she belonged, as, for 

 example, Ku-zhi-si-e, Wa-tse-tsi gens, They Who Came from the 

 Stars. 



When the work on the gentile personal names of the members of 

 the tribe was completed, Mr. La Flesche and Ku-zhi-si-e took up the 



