ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 7 



liininary survey of the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, 

 finding that the various languages still persist and that their 

 ethnology is better preserved than might be expected. 



Doctor Michelson returned to Washington on September 

 19, when he prepared for publication by the bureau two 

 papers on sacred packs of the Fox Indians and their appur- 

 tenant gens festivals, one called A'peniiwana''^' belong- 

 ing to the Thunder gens; the other, Sagima'kwawA, belong- 

 ing to the Bear gens. Doctor Michelson also completed 

 typewriting the English translation and Indian text of a 

 Fox sacred pack belonging to the Thunder gens formerly 

 in possession of Pyatwaya. A fuUer text than this on 

 Pyatwaya's pack, written in the current syllabary, was 

 restored phonetically, as was the Indian text on the Thunder 

 Dance of the Bear gens, a complete version having been 

 obtained. 



Mr. J. P. Harrington, ethnologist, was engaged during 

 the fiscal year in the important work of rescuing what can 

 still be learned of the vanishing culture of the Mission Indians 

 of California. Work was continued at ruined village sites 

 of the Santa Ines, Ojai, and Sinii VaUeys, and at several of 

 these sites extensive excavations were made, revealing an 

 earUer and later coast Indian culture. Pictographs were 

 discovered and photographed, and also many rocks who 

 were "first people" and petrified and figure in Indian legends 

 still extant. Spirit footprints on the rocks, both of moc- 

 casined and bare feet, made by these "first people" when the 

 earth was still soft and muddy, were found at several places 

 and photographed. At San Marcos the bowlders on a hill- 

 side represent the warriors of a mythic battle; some are 

 standing vdih the blood from wounds running down their 

 sides, seen as stains on the rock. A curious medicine rock 

 was also visited, the size of a man and standing erect and sur- 

 rounded at least at the present time by a bunch of opuntia 

 cactus which keeps the curious at a respectful distance. At 

 Rincon were photographed a couple of tall bowlders which 

 stand 6 feet apart. To have good luck in hunting, so that 

 one w^ould be able to jump successfully among the rocks in 



