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to which their owners belong. A number of ceremonies of 

 these Indians were witnessed and he also learned some facts 

 on Fox eschatology. During his work he pm-chased a num- 

 ber of sacred packs for the Museum of the American Indian 

 (Heye Foundation), receiving the right to pulilish by the 

 bureau the information pertaining to them. On leaving 

 Tama, Doctor Michelson proceeded to Mayetta, Kans., to 

 conduct a preliminary survey of the Potawatomi, as it was 

 very clear that the dual divisions of the Sauk and Fox could 

 only be thoroughly understood after that of the Potawatomi 

 was unraveled. Although unable to completely work out 

 the regulations governing membership in the Potawatomi 

 dual divisions, he determined definitely that this division was 

 for ceremonial as well as athletic purposes, as among the 

 Sauk and Fox. He successfully studied the gentile organi- 

 zation of the Potawatomi and obtained a number of folk 

 tales in English which show very clearly that a large body of 

 European (French) element have been absorbed by the 

 Potawatomi and that certain elements of the Plains Indians 

 are present. To account for the distribution of the surviving 

 tales we must assume an early association with the Ojibwa 

 and a later one with the Sauk and Fox group, which is quite 

 in line with what would be expected on linguistic and his- 

 toric grounds. Doctor Michelson returned to Washington 

 in October and prepared manuscript on a number of miscel- 

 laneous topics appertaining to the Fox Indians, to serve as 

 an introduction to the proposed memoir on the White Buffalo 

 Dance, which, with the exception of typewriting the Indian 

 texts and the addition of a vocabulary, is now ready to 

 submit for publication. During the winter Edward Daven- 

 port, a Fox pupil of the United States Indian School at 

 Carlisle, spent a week in Washington, assisting in a number 

 of points regarding the memoir. 



In the spring Doctor Michelson made a preliminary trans- 

 lation of a Fox text of the "owl sacred pack." In June he 

 went to Carlisle and worked out the dubious points in the 

 translation with this informant, who dictated the Indian 

 text twice from that in the current syllabary, so that the 



