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of recording sociological data and ritualistic origin mj^hs. 

 In August, Dr. Michelson proceeded to Oklahoma for the 

 purpose of investigating the sociology and phonetics of the 

 Sauk Indians, as well as of obtaining translations of Fox 

 texts pertaining especiallj^ to ritualistic origin myths. After 

 successfully concluding this work, Dr. Michelson returned to 

 Washington in October, when he commenced the translation 

 of the textual material gathered in the field. Advantage 

 was taken of the presence in Washington of a deputation of 

 Piegan in obtaining a detailed knowledge of Piegan terms 

 of relationship. From these studies Dr. Michelson deter- 

 mined that the lists of relationship terms recorded by Lewis 

 H. Morgan, as well as by other investigators, require revision. 

 He also commenced to an-ange the material gathered by the 

 late Dr. WiUiam Jones pertaining to the ethnology of the 

 Ojibwa Tribe, with a view of its publication as a bulletin of 

 the bureau. Toward the close of the year Dr. Michelson 

 undertook to restore phonetically the text of the White 

 Buffalo dance of the Fox Indians, which likewise is intended 

 for bulletin publication. It is believed that the results of 

 this task will be ready for the printer before the close of the 

 calendar year. 



Dr. Leo J. Frachtenberg, special ethnologist, divided his 

 time, as in previous years, between field research and office 

 work. On July 8 he left his winter headquarters at the 

 United States training school at Chemawa, Oreg., and pro- 

 ceeded to the Yakima Reservation, Wash., where he revised, 

 with the aid of the last Atfalati Indian, the Kalapuya 

 manuscript material collected in 1877 by the late Dr. A. S. 

 Gatschet, of the bm-eau. This material, comprising 421 

 manuscript pages, consists of vocables, stems, grammatical 

 forms, and ethnological and historical narratives, and 

 its revision marked the completion of the work on the 

 Kalapuya linguistic family commenced two summers ago. 

 This work lasted until the latter part of July. In conjunc- 

 tion with this particular phase of field work, Dr. Frachten- 

 berg corrected the second revision of the galle)^ proofs of his 

 Siuslaw grammatical sketch to appear in the second part of 

 Bulletin 40. 



