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that every initiated person acquired his knowledge at great expense, 

 has made it almost impossible to record the ceremonies in full from 

 those who have been induced to speak about them. 



Mrs. M. C. Stevenson, ethnologist, continued her studies of the 

 ethnology of the Tewa Indians of New Mexico, devoting special at- 

 tention to the pueblo of San Ildefonso, with a view of elaborating 

 her memoir on this group of tribes, which consists of about 400 pages 

 of manuscript, material relating to almost every phase of Tewa cus- 

 toms and beliefs having been added in whole or in part during 

 the course of the year. Perhaps the most important of the new data 

 gathered by Mrs. Stevenson on these interesting sedentary people 

 relate to their ceremonies with respect to human sacrifice. The con- 

 servatism of the Tewa and the secrecy with which most of their 

 numerous rites are conducted make them a difficult subject of study 

 and one requiring considerable time. Mrs. Stevenson's memoir had 

 reached such a stage of completion that at the close of the year she 

 was making final arrangements for acquiring the materials still 

 needed for illustrations. 



Shortly after the beginning of the fiscal year Dr. Truman Michel- 

 son, ethnologist, proceeded to Tama, Iowa, to renew his researches 

 among the Fox Indians. After successfully commencing these studies 

 he proceeded to Tongue River Eeservation in Montana for the pur- 

 pose of studying the remnant of the Sutaio tribe incorporated with 

 the Cheyenne. It seems that some ethnological information can still 

 be obtained in regard to specific Sutaio matters, but little of the lan- 

 guage remains. Dr. Michelson compiled a fairly large Sutaio vocab- 

 ulary, but fewer than a dozen words are fundamentally different 

 from the corresponding Cheyenne terms. Such grammatical forms 

 as could be obtained indicate that Sutaio sheds little or no light on 

 the divergent Algonquian type of the Cheyenne language. 



Returning to Tama to renew his Fox studies. Dr. Michelson suc- 

 ceeded in elucidating the social organization almost to completeness. 

 It appears that the two major divisions of the tribe are not purely for 

 rivalry in athletics, but rather are ceremonial. Dr. Michelson was 

 successful also in obtaining the very long myths of the culture hero 

 and the Mother of all the Earth. It is evident that the actual Fox 

 society still corresponds in a measure to that given in the myths. 



In October Dr. Michelson proceedeji to Kansas to investigate the 

 Sauk and Fox of the Missouri. A reconnoissance only was made 

 here, and some of the Fox material obtained at Tama was translated. 

 In November he returned to Washington, and in January, 1914, vis- 

 ited the Carlisle Indian School for the purpose of studying special 

 points of grammar and phonetics with some of the Sauk and Fox 

 pupils. Thence he made a trip to New York City, taking with him 

 one of the pupils for the purpose of consulting Dr. Franz Boas, hon- 



