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dance, intended for publication as a bulletin of the bureau. 
Considerable information pertaining to a number of sacred 
bundles of the Fox Indians was obtained, as well as various 
data of a sociologicalnature. Nearly 300 personal names were 
recorded, together with the names of the gentes to which their 
owners belonged; in this manner about nine-tenths of the 
population of the Fox Indians has been catalogued. 
About the middle of August Dr. Michelson proceeded to 
Oklahoma where, with the cooperation of the Illinois Cen- 
tennial Commission, he conducted researches among the 
Peoria. The ethnology of this tribe, properly speaking, has 
practically vanished, but their language and folklore still 
persist, though knowledge thereof is confined to only a few 
individuals. Contrary to ordinary belief, the Peoria lan- 
guage, phonetically, is extremely complicated. From notes 
left by the late Dr. A. 8S. Gatschet, it had been inferred that 
the Peoria belongs fundamentally with the Chippewa or 
Ojibwa group of central Algonquian languages, and this was 
fully confirmed. It is quite clear, however, that there has 
been another and more recent association with the Sauk, 
Fox, and Kickapoo group, and Peoria folklore and mythology 
also point to this double association. The system of con- 
sanguinity is clearly that of the Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo 
group, rather than that of the Ojibwa. Dr. Michelson 
recorded, mostly in English, an almost exhaustive collection 
of Peoria folktales and myths. 
After devoting about a month’s time to the Peoria, Dr. 
Michelson returned to Iowa and renewed his work among 
the Sauk and Fox by making a phonetic restoration of a 
number of texts on minor sacred packs pertaining to the 
White Buffalo dance, as well as by recording 200 pages of the 
extremely long myth of the Fox culture hero. Most of the 
ceremonies in connection with the presentation of a new drum 
of the so-called religious dance of the Potawatomi of Wis- 
consin were witnessed, as also were parts of a number of 
clan feasts. 
On returning to Washington in November Dr. Michelson 
commenced the revision of the English translation of the 
texts relating to the White Buffalo dance, and devoted atten- 
