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near Arpin. He then visited the Ojibwa near Reserve, Wisconsin, 

 to obtain some first-hand information on them, and afterwards the 

 Ottawa of the lower Michigan peninsula. It appears that their lan- 

 guage and folklore survive with full vigor, but their social organiza- 

 tion has rather broken down. Dr. ]\Iichelson next visited the Dela- 

 ware and Munsee of Lower Canada. It is clear that the Delaware 

 and JNIunsee spoken in Canada are not the same as spoken in the 

 United States ; so that the term " Delaware " is really nothing but 

 a catch-all designation of a number of distinct though closely related 

 languages. Finallv. Dr. Michelson carried on investigations among 



Fig. 140. — Fox matting at Tama, Iowa. 



the Alontagnais, near Pointe Bleue. P. O., for a few days. He found 

 that although the language is distinctly closely related to Cree, never- 

 theless it is decidedly more archaic than has lieen commonly stipposed. 



FIELD-WORK AMONG THE YUMA, COCOPA, AND 

 YAQUI INDIANS 



IMiss Frances Densmore, collaborator of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, conducted field-work among the Yuma and Cocopa In- 

 dians living near the ^Mexican border in Arizona, and the Yaqui living 

 near Phoenix, Arizona. Songs of the jMohave were recorded by 

 members of the tribe living on the Yuma reservation, and a Mayo 

 song was obtained from a Yacjui Indian. 



