48 PREFACE. 



he wish to thank his interpreter, Oliver Lamere, of Winnebago, 

 Nebraska, without whom this work could hardly have been completed, 

 and his three main informants, Jasper Blowsnake and Sam Carley, 

 both of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and John Rave, of Winnebago, 

 Nebraska. 



To Prof. Franz Boas he is under especial obligations for directing 

 him to the Wimiebago, for the methods of research inculcated in him 

 at Columbia University, and particularly for impressing upon him the 

 necessity of obtaining as much information as possible in text. 



His thanks are also due to the following individual and institutions: 

 To Mi*. C. Brown, of Madison, Wis., for a number of illustrations 

 previously published in the Wisconsin Archeologist, and to the 

 American Museum of Natural History, the Peabody Museum, and 

 the Milwaukee Public Museum for numerous photographs of objects 

 in their collections. 



His brother. Dr. Max Radin, he wishes to thank for financing his 

 first visit to the Winnebago in 1908. 



The manuscript was finished in 1913. 



Paul Radin. 



Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 11, 1916. 



