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great auuvial suu dance, where he succeeded in obtaining 

 the first photographs ever made of the skull -dragging 

 ceremony, and obtained for the National Museum the 

 sacred buffalo skull used on the altar of the dance. 

 Shortly afterward he was recalled to Washington, where 

 he remained until October, returning to the field in time 

 to witness the tomahawk dance of the Arapaho — an inter- 

 esting ceremony held only at intervals of several years, on 

 the occasion of the promotion of the young men of a cer- 

 tain military society from a lower to a higher degree. 

 Headquarters having been temporarily established at 

 Darlington, the Cheyenne -Arapaho agency, the winter 

 months were spent in gathering additional Cheyenne 

 information and in putting the final touches on a series 

 of Kiowa models, to be included in the Bureau's exhibit 

 at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Early in March 

 Mr Mooney removed to his permanent headquarters at 

 Mount Scott, in the Kiowa country. Work was continued 

 on the Exposition exhibit, which was shipped to St Louis 

 before the close of the month. About the middle of June 

 he was instructed to proceed to St Louis to complete the 

 installation of this material; and, after spending a num- 

 ber of days in the study of the aboriginal exhibits of the 

 Exposition, he returned to the Kiowa country to continue 

 his researches there. 



Dr J. W. Fewkes, ethnologist, remained in Washington 

 during the first half of the year, engaged in the comple- 

 tion of his report on the previous winter's field work in 

 Porto Rico and Santo Domingo, and in January, 1004, he 

 again proceeded to the West Indies with instructions to 

 make a reconnoissance of the great chain of islands con- 

 necting Florida with the eastern shore of Venezuela, for 

 the purpose of obtaining a general view of the antiquities 

 and remaining tribal reinnants. In January Doctor 

 Fewkes reached Cuba, where he spent six weeks examin- 

 ing local collections, esx)ecially those in Havana and San- 

 tiago ; he also visited Matanzas, Santa Clara, and Puerto 

 Principe, and made excursions from the city of Santiago 



