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of coiitonts of the pioijoscd inciuoii- iiidicjitcs lluil licr 

 studios of the customs and beliofs oT IIk; Tewa will he as 

 conipi'dicnsivo ns tlic publislicd results of her invostiga- 

 tious of Uie Sia and (lie Zufii tribe ol' the same State. As 

 at j)rcseni (»iii lined, the work, which will soon be com- 

 pleted, will coulain six sections, dealing with (he i'oljowing 

 subjects, respectively: Pliilosoi»hy, anthropic worship and 

 ritual, zoic worshi}), social cusioms, material cnKnre, and 

 history. 



Dr. Truman Michclson, ethnologist, continued his 

 studies among the Algoncpiian tribes. In the middle of 

 July, 1912, he proceed(Ml lo \hv Fox Indians, a( Tama, 

 Towa, from whom a large additional body <»!' mythological 

 material was obtained; this, in connection with the myths 

 and legends in the I'oini of texts gathered dnring the pre- 

 \ions season, api)roximates 7,()()() pages. When the t rans- 

 lation of this material shall Iwive been tinished it will I'oi'ni 

 one of the most exhaustive colh^ctions of mythology of 

 any Indian tribe. M is ii<)t(>worthy that tlu^se myths and 

 tales differ essentially in style I'l-om those gathered by the 

 late Dr. William Jones (scarcely any of whose matci'ial 

 has been dnplicated by Dr. Michelson) — a rad that 

 eni[>liasi/es the necessity of recording such material in tin; 

 aboriginal tongue. It may be added that the myths and 

 tal(\s collected are also important in the light they shed 

 on the dissemination of myths. Study of the social and 

 cerem<»nial organi/at ion of the FOx luilians was lik(^wise 

 continued, and especially full notes were obtained on their 

 Religion dance. Many of the songs of one of the drums 

 were recoi'ded on a (lictai)hone and several photographs 

 of the native ball ganu^ were secured. 



Dr. Michelson next pr<)C((eded to Haskell Institute, the 

 noni(^servation Indian school at Lawrence, Kans., I'oi- the 

 purpose of obtaining nott^s on Atsina (Dros Ventre) and 

 several othei- A1gon(|uian languag(^s, the results of which 

 show definitely that Atsina shares vvitli Ai'apaho all the 

 deviations from normal Algonquian, and that I'otawatomi 

 is further removed from Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Algord<in 

 than any one of thes(\ is fi-om the others. 



