NO. 6 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I92O 



III 



earthing beneath the top soil remains which might differ in general 

 character from those on the surface. There being no difference 

 between remains belonging to the historic period and those superficially 

 showing evidence of great age, it is logical to conclude that when that 

 branch of the Polynesian race, now known as Hawaiians, left their 

 home in the distant South Seas and migrated to these islands, they 

 found the territory without inhabitants ; and there is no reason what- 

 ever for supposing that any people culturally different from the his- 

 toric Hawaiians had ever previously lived on the islands. 



FIELD-WORK AMONG THE FOX AND PLAINS CREE INDIANS 

 Dr. Michelson, ethnologist of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 began field-work among the Fox Indians at Tama, Iowa, about the 



Fig. 125. — The dwelling in which the White Buffalo Dance of the Fox In- 

 dians is held. The building is the typical " bark " house used by the Fox in 

 the summer and early fall. 



middle of June. His main purpose was to restore phonetically a text 

 containing the autobiography of an Indian woman written in the cur- 

 rent syllabary which he had obtained in the summer of 1918, to correct 

 the translation where there was need, to elucidate some ethnological 

 references contained in the text, to clear up some grammatical ob- 

 scurities, and to work out the verbal stems so far as was feasible in 

 the field. All this was successfully accomplished, and Dr. Michelson 

 left for Saskatchewan in the latter part of July for a preliminary 

 investigation of the Plains Cree. The results of this investiga- 

 tion show that the Plains Cree are tall and have a cephalic index 



