ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 57 
Mr. Francis La Flesche, ethnologist, continued during the 
fiscal year on the task of assembling his notes for the second 
volume of his work on the Osage tribe. The manuscript 
for the second volume, which embraces two versions of an 
ancient Osage ritual entitled, “ No"-zhi"-zho" Wa-tho”, Songs 
of the Rite of Vigil,” was completed and turned in to 
the bureau on February 25, 1922, where it awaits publication. 
The first version of this ritual, which is counted as next 
in importance to the Hearing of the Sayings of the Ancient 
Men, published in the Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the 
bureau, was given by Wa-xthi-zhi of the Puma gens of 
the Osage. This man had learned the ritual from his 
father, Wa-thu’-ts’aga-zhi, who is said to have been one 
of the best informed No*’-ho”-zhi"-ga in the tribal rites. 
With some difficulty Mr. La Flesche managed to persuade 
Sho*’-ge-mo*-i", of the Peacemaker gens, a more conserva- 
tive man than Wa-xthi-zhi, to give the second version, 
which belongs to his gens. As this ritual pertains to war, 
old Sho*’-ge-mo*-i* desired it to be clearly understood that 
his gens performed the ceremonies of the ritual as a mere 
matter of form rather than as an actual owner of the rite. 
The office of his gens, he explained, was one that was insti- 
tuted for the conservation of life and the maintenance of 
peace within the tribe and with other tribes not related 
to the Osage. 
On the completion of the manuscripts for the second 
volume, Mr. La Flesche began the task of assembling his 
notes for the third volume, which will embrace two tribal 
rituals, the first of which is entitled “ Wa-x6-be A-wa-tho", 
Songs Relating to the Wa-xé-be.” The Wa-x6-be is the 
sacred hawk, the symbol of the valor of the Osage war- 
rior. ‘The second ritual is entitled “Ca Tha-dse Ga-xe,” 
literally, The Making of the Rush, but meaning the Making 
of the Woven Rush Shrine for the Wa-x6-be. 
On July 1, 1921, Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, was 
at Tama, lowa, continuing his work among the Fox Indians 
of that State. He completed. gathering data on Fox mortu- 
ary customs and beliefs and restored texts appertaining to 
these and worked out a vocabulary as far as possible in 
