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stranger replied, " I am Star-radiant who has brought for you 

 from the starry regions, Peace and Brotherly Love." This 

 and other star names belong to the Wa-tse-tzi (People of the 

 Stars) gens, in whose keeping are the House of Refuge and the 

 Fireplace of Peace. The meaning of the name Pi-si (acorn) 

 is also obscure until it is explained that it points to the story 

 of the people of the Tsi-zhu gens and subgentes, who when 

 they came from the sky to the earth, ahghted upon seven red 

 oak trees. The alighting of the people on the tops of the 

 trees sent down showers of acorns, and a voice spoke, saying, 

 "Your little ones shall be as numerous as the acorns that fall 

 from these trees." About 1,991 gentile names have been 

 recorded, covering 83 pages. The translations of the names 

 are yet to be made. 



Doctor La Flesche also spent three weeks' time assisting 

 Mr. DeLancey Gill, illustrator, in classifying negatives of 

 photographs of Ponca, Omaha, and Osage Indians. 



A vocabulary of the Osage language has also been started 

 by Doctor La Flesche and Dr. John R. Swanton. So far some 

 3,000 or more words have been recorded with translations. 



SPECIAL RESEARCHES 



The research in Indian music by Miss Frances Densmore 

 during this fiscal year has been marked by the collecting and 

 developing of extensive material among the Menominee of 

 Wisconsin, and the completion of the book on Papago music 

 which is now ready for j^ublication. The proof of the book 

 on "The Music of the Tule Indians of Panama" was read, 

 and the text of "Pawnee Music" (apart from analyses) was 

 retyped, putting it in final form. 



The titles of the manuscripts furnished to the bureau dur- 

 ing the fiscal year are as follows: "Songs connected with 

 ceremonial games and adoption dances of the Menominee 

 Indians," "Menominee songs connected with hunting bun- 

 dles, war bundles, and the moccasin game," "Menominee 

 songs connected with a boy's fast, also dream songs, love 

 songs, and flute melodies," "Dream dance songs of the 

 Menominee Indians," "Songs used in the treatment of the 



