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treatment. Mrs. Stevenson was an efficient and industrious 

 investigator of the ethnology of the Pueblo Indians, to M^hich 

 subject she had devoted many years of her life, giving special 

 attention to the Sia, the Zuni, and the Tewa tribes. Three 

 memou's on these Indians, published in the annual reports, 

 are replete with information on the subjects of which they 

 treat, and there is no doubt that when Mrs. Stevenson's 

 memoir on the Tewa Indians finally appears much valuable 

 knowledge will be added to that which she has already given 

 on the sedentary Indians of the extreme Southwest. 



With the opening of the fiscal year Dr. Truman Michelson 

 proceeded to Wisconsin in the hope of obtaining ethnologic 

 and linguistic information regarding the Stockbridge Indians 

 residing in that State. It was found that, with respect to 

 the language of this remnant tribe, about a dozen members 

 remembered isolated words, but only one could dictate 

 connected texts, half a dozen of which were recorded. 

 Although knowledge of the language is now too limited to 

 enable restoration of the grammar, enough material was 

 obtained to show that Stockbridge was intimately related 

 to Pequot and Natick, as well as to Delaware-Munsee. 

 The Stockbridges have long since abandoned all their native 

 customs and beliefs, consequentl}^ their ethnology may be 

 regarded as l^eyond recovery. 



WTiile in Wisconsin Dr. Michelson procured also ethnologic 

 and linguistic notes on the Menominee. A visit to the 

 Brotherton Indians resulted in the acquirement of little 

 information excepting historical data, as these people have 

 become gi'eatly modified. 



Dr. Michelson next visited Tama, Iowa, for the purpose 

 of renewing his researches among the Fox Indians, to which 

 he has been devoting his energies for some time. He was 

 especially successful in obtaining accounts of the mythical 

 origin ascribed to the Fox people, given in the form of 

 rituals, and he gave attention also to the phonetics of the 

 Fox language. A noteworthy result of Dr. Michelson's Fox 

 investigations was the acquirement, through Horace Powa- 



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