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be Algonquian is very small. The grammatical structure 

 is, however, fundamentally Algonquian. It is also true 

 that there are a few traits which are distinctly un- Algon- 

 quian ; for example, the order of words. 



The first week in August Doctor Michelson went to 

 Tama, Iowa, to renew his work among the Foxes. He 

 there restored phonetically some texts previously obtained 

 in the current syllabic script and worked out some transla- 

 tions. He also obtained some grammatical notes on these 

 texts. Some new Fox syllabic texts were collected and 

 new and important ethnological data were obtained. 



Doctor Michelson returned to Washington in Septem- 

 ber. He corrected proofs of Bulletin 89, Observations on 

 the Thunder Dance of the Bear Gens of the Fox Indians, 

 and prepared for publication by the bureau a memoir 

 entitled " Notes on the Great Sacred Pack of the Thunder 

 Gens of the Fox Indians." Early in June Doctor Michel- 

 son left for Oklahoma, where he obtained more Kickapoo 

 linguistic notes, further elucidating the relation of Kicka- 

 poo to Fox. From this it appears that Kickapoo diverges 

 more widely in idiom than hithereto suspected. He also 

 secured some Kickapoo texts in the current syllabic script 

 and obtained new data on social organization. Some brief 

 Shawnee linguistic notes were collected. These show that 

 while Shawnee is in certain respects very important for 

 a correct understanding of Fox phonology, as a whole it 

 is not as archaic. It is also now clear that Shawnee is 

 further removed from Sauk and Kickapoo than he had 

 previously surmised. Doctor Michelson witnessed several 

 Kickapoo dances and attended a Shawnee ball game. 



In June, 1929, Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, 

 completed his report on the Taos Indians, who inhabit 

 a large pueblo on an eastern affluent of the Rio Grande 

 in north-central New Mexico. These are the northernmost 

 of the New Mexico Pueblo Indians and are peculiarly in- 

 teresting because of the long intimate relations they have 

 had with the Jicarilla Apaches, Utes, Comanches, and 

 other tribes of Great Plains culture. During the period 



