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was copied, collated, and analyzed, and constitutes a manu- 
script of more than 1,000 pages. 
Kiowa is a typical Tano-Kiowan dialect, closely related 
in phonetics, vocabulary, and structure with the Tanoan 
languages of New Mexico. This proves again, as in the case 
of the Hopi, that culture areas cut across linguistic ones. 
The Tano-Kiowan is furthermore genetically related to the 
Keresan and Zufiian groups of New Mexico, also to the 
Shoshonean, and certain languages of California. Mr. Har- 
rington has in hand a comparative study of these languages 
which is very bulky. 
Upon finishing the manuscript of the Kiowa paper, Mr. 
Harrington took up the Taos material, aided by a set of 
excellent texts dictated by Mr. R. Vargas, and comprising 
400 typewritten pages. He finished this for publication 
before the close of the fiscal year. 
On July 1, 1920, Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, was 
at Tama, Iowa, engaged in researches among the Sauk and 
Fox of that State and preparing for publication by the bureau 
a manuscript entitled “The Autobiography of a Fox Indian 
Woman,” as far as practical in the field. A good deal of 
the work on this had been done in the previous fiscal year. 
Near the close of July he left for Saskatchewan, Canada, 
where he made a reconnaissance of the Plains Cree at File 
Hills Agency. From this study it appears that physically 
the Plains Cree have a cephalic index of about 79, thus 
belonging to the so-called Mississippi Valley type of North 
American Indian, which confirms the results of Dr. Boas’s 
work many years ago. Linguistically Cree clearly belongs 
to the central division of Algonquian languages, but it is not 
as archaic as has usually been believed. The folklore and 
mythology here show from an analysis of the culture cycle 
that both woodland and plains elements are to be found, as 
well as a few plateau elements. Ethnologically we have 
the same combination, save that plateau elements are lacking. 
Doctor Michelson returned to Washington at the close of 
August, where he completed the autobiography mentioned 
above, and in January submitted the manuscript for publi- 
cation by the bureau. The remainder of his time at Wash- 
