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who died in 1910. After much persuasion his widow re- 
luctantly consented to part with this sacred article, together 
with its buffalo-hair and rush-mat cases. This pack consists 
of the skin and plumage of a white pelican, the bird which 
in Osage mythology revealed through a dream the mysteries 
of tattooing and provided the implements therefor. 
All the above-described ceremonies studied by Mr. La 
Flesche have still a strong hold on the Osage people; this, 
together with the fact that every initiated person acquired 
his knowledge at great expense, has made it almost impossible 
to record the ceremonies in full from those who have been 
induced to speak about them. 
Mrs. M. ©. Stevenson, ethnologist, continued her studies of 
the ethnology of the Tewa Indians of New Mexico, devoting 
special attention to the pueblo of San Ildefonso, with a view 
of elaborating her memoir on this group of tribes, which con- 
sists of about 400 pages of manuscript, material relating to 
almost every phase of 'Tewa customs and beliefs having been 
added in whole or in part during the course of the year. 
Perhaps the most important of the new data gathered by 
Mrs. Stevenson on these interesting sedentary people relate 
to their ceremonies with respect to human sacrifice. The 
conservatism of the Tewa and the secrecy with which most 
of their numerous rites are conducted make them a difficult 
subject of study and one requiring considerable time. Mrs. 
Stevenson’s memoir had reached such a stage of completion 
that at the close of the year she was making final arrange- 
ments for acquiring the materials still needed for illustrations. 
Shortly after the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Truman 
Michelson, ethnologist, proceeded to Tama, Iowa, to renew 
his researches among the Fox Indians. After successfully 
commencing these studies he proceeded to Tongue River 
Reservation in Montana for the purpose of studying the 
remnant of the Sutaio Tribe incorporated with the Cheyenne. 
It seems that some ethnological information can still be 
obtained in regard to specific Sutaio matters, but little of the 
language remains. Doctor Michelson compiled a fairly large 
Sutaio vocabulary, but fewer than a dozen words are funda- 
mentally different from the corresponding Cheyenne terms. 
