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the field. On the completion of this he restored phonetically 
a text previously collected on the Fox society known as 
“Those who worship the little spotted buffalo.” He also 
worked out, as far as practical, the vocabulary to this text. 
At the close of August he returned to Washington and 
elaborated the material collected in the field. During the 
fiscal year Dr. Michelson submitted two manuscripts for 
publication, namely, “ Notes on Fox Mortuary Customs 
and Beliefs” and “Notes on the Fox Society Known as 
‘Those Who Worship the Little Spotted Buffalo.’”’ 
On May 25 Doctor Michelson left for the West to conduct 
researches among the Algonquian Indians of Iowa, Kansas, 
and Oklahoma. He stopped at Columbus, Ohio, to consult 
with Prof. L. Bloomfield. As a result of this conference it 
became apparent that Menomini is very clearly more closely 
related to Cree than to any other Algonquian language. He 
found the work at Shawnee, Okla., very difficult and expen- 
sive, owing to the fact that the Algonquian Indians of that 
State are scattered and distances are very great. How- 
ever, during his short stay he secured sufficient information 
to show definitely that not only the Sauk but also the Kicka- 
poo share many mortuary customs and beliefs with the 
Fox of Iowa. He thinks that these correspondences are too 
detailed and too numerous to be of independent origin and 
must be due to dissemination. This poimt regarding the 
Sauk and Fox is not novel, but it is regarding the Kickapoo. 
There are, however, some differences in the mortuary cus- 
toms of all neighboring tribes. This last fact is not so well 
known. A detailed study of all three neighboring tribes, 
Siouan as well as Algonquian, on these matters alone can 
clear up the history of the borrowings. He expects to obtain 
data on these points regarding the Shawnee and Potawatomi 
also. 
The beginning of the fiscal year found Mr. J. P. Harrington, 
ethnologist, engaged in completing his bulletin on the Kiowa 
language, in several respects one of the most remarkable of 
the American Indian tongues. Aside from the phonetic 
system, with its unusual frequency of long vowels and diph- 
thongs, we may point to the noun, several declensions of 
