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SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I918 



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FIELD-WORK AMONG THE SAUK AND EON 

 Dr. Truman ^lichelson, ethnologist, of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnolog"}", si:>ent two and a half months at Tama, Iowa, among" the 

 Sauk and I""ox Indians. Shortly after his arrival. July i, the death 



Ell,. 126. — Some Fox Children in Gala Attire. 



Kk,. \jJ. — A Cerrnioni.il I )rnni used in llic l-<>.\ " Kilii.;i()n Daiiee." 



of William Wanatics son ot'currcd. Mr, MichcKnii was L^ivcn 

 tobacco and Ifjld to g;o to the hou-^(■ and he niic i\\ iIkim' tn sit up 

 all night with the corpse. W'anatic i-. the dwinr nt" diic nf the 

 diiiiii> connected willi llie ^o-ealled icliL;n m dance : and the (i|i|)(ii'- 



