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S.MITIISONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 66 



yet the Peoria Indians are unaware of their origin. While among" 

 the Peoria some incidental notes on Shawnee sociology and folklore 

 were ol^tained by Dr. Michelson. After about four weeks' stay 

 in Oklahoma he returned to Iowa to renew his investigations 

 among the Sauk and Fox at Tama. There the phonetic restora- 

 tion of a number of texts on minor sacred packs pertaining to 

 the White Buffalo Dance was accomplished, and about 200 pages 

 of the extremely long myth of the Fox culture-hero were also 

 restored. Dr. Michelson witnessed most of the ceremonies that 



Fk;. \2/. — Soir.e of tlie descendants of the I'Ox Chief I'oweshiek. 



were performed when the Potawatomi of Wisconsin presented the 

 Foxes with a new drum of the so-called " Religion Dance." 



RESEARCHES BY DR. JOHN R. S WANTON 

 The only undertaking in the nature of field-work by Dr. John R. 

 Swanton during the year w^as a visit to Chicago in September to 

 make an examination of the manuscript material in the Ayer collec- 

 tion of .Americana in the Newberry Library. This occupied less 

 than a week, but proved rich in results, the luost imjiortant of which 

 was the discovery of a French memoir containing the best Karankawa 



