XXXII REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY. 



WORK OF MR JAMES MOONEY 



Mr James Mooiie}', (luring the field iiiontlis of the fiscal 

 year, continued making collections for an exhibit at the 

 World's Columbian J]xposition comprising objects to illustrate 

 the daily life, arts, dress, and cei'emonies of the Kiowa in the 

 southeastern part of Indian Territoiy. That tribe was selected 

 as continuing in its primitive condition more perfectly than any 

 other Avhich could be examined with profit. He succeeded 

 in making a tribal collection which is practically complete, 

 including almost every article in use among the Kiowa for 

 domestic uses, and for war, ceremony, anmsement, or dress. 

 A number of photographs were also obtained. On his return 

 in August this collection was labeled and arranged in cases 

 ready for transportation to Chicago on the opening of the 

 Exposition, and by the nso of the photographs and costumes 

 several groups of life-size figures were prepared to show char- 

 acteristic scenes in Indian life. 



In November he again set forth to obtain additional infor- 

 mation relating to the ghost dance, especially among the prin- 

 cipal tribes nut before visited. After a short stay in Nebraska 

 with the Omaha and Winnebago Indians, neither of whom, it 

 was found, had taken any prominent part in the dance, he 

 went to the Sioux villages at Pine Ridge agencv. South Dakota, 

 the chief seat of the late outbreak, where he c(.)llected a large 

 number of songs of the dance and much miscellaneous infor- 

 mation on the subject. From there he went to the Paiute in 

 Nevada, among whom the messiah and originator of the g-host 

 dance resides. Here he obtained the stat(nneiit of tlie doctrine 

 from the li})s of the messiah himself, took his portrait (the only 

 one ever taken), and obtained a number of dance songs in 

 the Paiute language. He then returned to the Cheyenne and 

 Arapaho Indians in Indian Territory, among whom he had 

 begun the study of the dance, and obtained from them the 

 original letter which the messiah had given them, containing 

 the authentic statement of his doctrine and the manner in 

 which they were to obser^•e the ceremonial. He returned to 

 Wasliington in February. 



