ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 33 
In addition to this material, it is designed to add as sup- 
plementary matter some Creek tales and mythic legends 
collected by Mr. Jeremiah Curtin. 
The following brief list of topics treated may give some 
idea of the nature of these field notes: “'Towns and clan 
lists,” “ Crime and murder,” “ The government of the clan,” 
“The town government or organization of a town,” “The 
council square,”’ “The chief,’ “The system of councils,” 
“The clan,” “The ranks and the title of persons,’ “The 
busk or puskita,’”’ “ Medicine practices,’ “ Names and nam- 
ing,” “ Festivals,” “ Marriage customs,” “ Insanity,’’ “ Proph- 
ets,’ “Souls or spirits,” “ Mythic notes,” and the short list 
of tales collected by Mr. Curtin. Much of the material here 
recorded is not available either in any other manuscript or 
in print. 
Mr. Francis La Flesche, ethnologist, devoted nearly all of 
his time to putting into book form his notes for the second 
volume of his work on the Osage tribe. This task was twice 
interrupted by the reading of the galley and the page proofs 
of the first volume. 
The second volume is nearing completion and embraces 
two versions of an ancient rite entitled “ No*/-zhi*-zho" 
Wa-tho", Songs of the Rite of Vigil.” Up to this date the 
completed part of this manuscript, exclusive of the illustra- 
tions, contains 582 typewritten pages. 
Sho”’-ge-mo™-i", who gave the No*’-zhi*-zho” ritual of his 
gens, the Tsi’-zhu Wa-shta-ge, died in the autumn of 1919. 
He was the fourth to die of the old men who aided in the 
recording of the ancient tribal rites of the Osage. Two old 
men died before the time set by them to give the ceremonials 
of their gentes arrived. Sho"/-ge-mo™-i" remarked, as he 
was recording the child-naming ritual, to be published in a 
later volume, “The Osage people are fast dying out since 
they abandoned the supplicatory rites formulated by their 
ancestors.” 
The beginning of the fiscal year found Mr. J. P. Harring- 
ton, ethnologist, engaged in the preparation of his material 
on the language of the Kiowa Indians. The entire material 
