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with Mr. Hewitt's introduction, notes, and explanatory matter, -in a forth- 

 coming annual report. As opportunity afforded, Mr. Hewitt also resumed the 

 preparation of his sketch of the grammar of the Iroquois for incorporation in 

 the Handbook of American Indian Languages. 



As in previous years, Mr. Hewitt prepared and collected data for replies to 

 numerous correspondents requesting special information, particularly in regard 

 to the Iroquois and Algonquian tribes. Mr. Hewitt also had charge of the 

 important collection of 1,716 manuscripts of the bureau, cataloguing new acces- 

 sions and keeping a record of those withdrawn in the progress of the bureau's 

 researches. During the year, 378 manuscripts were thus made use of by the 

 members of the bureau and its collaborators. Exclusive of the numerous manu- 

 scripts prepared by the staff of tbe bureau and by those in collaboration with 

 it, referred to in this report, 12 items were added during the year. These 

 pertain to the Pawnee, Chippewa, Zuni, and Tewa tribes, and relate to music, 

 sociology, economics, and linguistics. 



The beginning of the fiscal year found Dr. Truman Michelson, ethnologist, 

 conducting ethnological and linguistic investigations among the Piegan Indians 

 of Montana, whence he proceeded to the Northern Cheyenne and Northern 

 Arapaho, thence to the Menominee of Wisconsin, and finally to the Micmac of 

 Eestigouche, Canada — all Algonquian tribes, the need of a more definite lin- 

 guistic classification of which has long been felt. Dr. Michelson returned to 

 Washington at the close of November and immediately commenced the elaboration 

 of his field notes, one of the results of which is a manuscript bearing the title 

 " A Linguistic Classification of the Algonquian Tribes," submitted for publi- 

 cation in the twenty-eighth annual report. Also in connection with his Algon- 

 quian work Dr. Michelson devoted attention to the further revision of the 

 material pertaining to the Fox grammar, by the late Dr. William Jones, the 

 outline of which is incorporated in the Handbook of American Indian Lan- 

 guages. During the winter Dr. Michelson took advantage of the presence in 

 Washington of a deputation of Chippewa Indians from White Earth, Minne- 

 sota, by enlisting their services in gaining an insight into the social organiza- 

 tion of that tribe and also in adding to the bureau's accumulation of Chippewa 

 linguistic data. Toward the close of June, 1911, Dr. Michelson proceeded to the 

 Sauk and Fox Reservation in Iowa for the purpose of continuing his study of 

 that Algonquian group. 



The months of July and August and half of September, 1910, were spent by 

 Dr. Paul Radin, ethnologist, among the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska and 

 Wisconsin, his efforts being devoted to a continuation of his studies of the 

 culture of those people, with special reference to their .ceremonial and social 

 organization and their general social customs. Part of the time was devoted 

 to a study of the Winnebago material culture, but little progress was made in 

 this direction, as few objects of aboriginal origin are now possessed by these 

 people, consequently the study must be completed by examination of their 

 objects preserved in museums and private collections. A beginning in this 

 direction was made by Dr. Radin during the latter half of September and in 

 October at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. During 

 the remainder of tbe fiscal year Dr. Radin was engaged in arranging the eth- 

 nological material gathered by him during tbe several years he bas devoted to 

 the Winnebago tribe, and in the preparation of a monograph on the Medicine 

 Ceremony of the Winnebago and a memoir on the ethnology of the Winnebago 

 tribe in general. In June, 1911, he again took the field in Wisconsin for the 

 purpose of obtaining the data necessary to complete the tribal monograph. 

 Both these manuscripts, it is expected, will be finished by the close of the 

 present calendar year. 



