24 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
spondents on linguistic, historical, sociological, and tech- 
nical subjects, and served also as custodian of manu- 
scripts. 
The beginning of the. fiscal year found Dr. Truman 
Michelson, ethnologist, engaged in an investigation among 
the Foxdndians near Tama, Iowa, with whom he remained 
until the middle of August, when he proceeded to Okla- 
homa, where he initiated researches among the Sauk 
Indians of that State. Doctor Michelson was very suc- 
cessful in recording the myths and tales of the Foxes, 
which covered about 2,300 pages of texts. He obtained 
likewise some notes on the ceremonial and social organiza- 
tion of that tribe, but these are neither full nor complete, 
as the Foxes are, without exception, the most conservative 
of the Algonquian tribes within the United States. While 
among the Sauk Doctor Michelson, with the aid of a native 
interpreter, translated some of the Fox myths and tales 
collected in Iowa, but his ehief work in Oklahoma con- 
sisted in gaining an insight into the Sauk ceremonial and 
social organization. He also translated, with the as- 
sistance of a Sauk, the Kickapoo texts collected by the 
late Dr. William Jones, subsequently correcting the ver- 
sion with a Kickapoo informant. The dialectic differences 
between Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo are not great, and as 
few of the Mexican. Kickapoo now speak any but broken 
English, a Sauk was employed in making the first draft 
of the translation. 
‘Among the Shawnee of Oklahoma Doctor Michelson’s 
work was primarily linguistic. The results confirmed his . 
opinion, gathered from the late Doctor Gatschet’s notes 
and texts, that the Shawnee language is most intimately 
connected with Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo, on the one hand, 
and with the Abnaki dialects on the other. He also 
gathered some Shawnee myths, partly in texts, partly on 
the phonograph, and a beginning was made on the Shaw- 
nee social organization. It was found that, apparently, 
the larger divisions are not phratries, nor are their clans 
exogamous, as already noted by Doctor Gatschet, despite 
