ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT 6 



Fox mythology, still holds valid. It should be mentioned 

 that Kickapoo shares with certain northern Indian tribes a 

 number of tales which are either absent from the Fox or their 

 knowledge is confined to but few of them. Despite some 

 secondary changes, Kickapoo is an archaic Algonquian lan- 

 guage. It may be added that their religious ideas and 

 practices hold their own with great vigor. Obviously, the 

 type of social organization is quite similar to those of the 

 Sauk and Fox. Work among the Sauk and Shawnee was 

 chiefly linguistic. The new data clearly show that Shawnee 

 is further removed from Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo than sup- 

 posed ; yet it is abundantly clear that it is closer to them than 

 to any other Algonquian languages. Only a short time was 

 given to Cheyenne, practically nothing but linguistics being 

 considered. The opinion given by Doctor Michelson in the 

 Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Bureau that Cheyenne 

 must be considered aberrant Algonquian is fully sustained. 

 Some social customs were noted, among them male descent. 

 Work among the Arapaho was mainly linguistic. 



A large part of the time in the office was spent in preparing 

 for publication a large memoir on the Fox WapAnowiweni. 

 .This is now in an advanced stage of preparation. He also 

 corrected the proofs of Bulletin 95 of the bureau, which was 

 issued during the year. 



On June 3, 1930, Doctor Michelson left Washington to 

 renew his work among the Algonquian Tribes of Oklahoma. 

 He spent at first a short time on the Cheyenne. It is now 

 possible to formulate some of the phonetic shifts that have 

 transformed Cheyenne from normal Algonquian. It is also 

 clear that some of the commonest words in normal Algon- 

 quian are lacking. He then took up work again among the 

 Kickapoo and obtained an even larger body of myths and 

 tales. Some new facts on their social organization were 

 likemse obtained. 



Mr. John P. Harrington, ethnologist, worked during the 

 year securing the language and much of the ethnology of 

 the San Juan tribe of California through an aged and ill 

 informant, Mrs. Ascension Solorsano, at Monterey, Calif. 



