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SMITHSONIAN EXl'LOKATltiXS. I92O 



III 



eartliing beneath the top soil remains which might ditter in general 

 character from those on the surface. There being no ditterence 

 between remains Ijelonging to the histt)ric period and those supcrrtcially 

 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 ]^reviously lived on the islands. 



FIELD-WORK AMUXG THE FOX AXD PLAIXS CREE IXDEVXS 

 Dr. Michelson. ethnologist of the lUireau of American Ethnology. 

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



Flo. iJ3. — The dwelling in which tlic Wliitc ButYalu Dance ut the F(jx In- 

 dians is held. The huilding is the typical "bark" house used by the Fu.x in 

 the summer and earlv tall. 



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

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

 rent syllabary which he had obtained in the summer of 191 S. 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 l(j work out the verbal stems so far as was feasii)le in 

 the field. .\11 this was successfully accompli^llcd. an<l I )r. .Michelson 

 left for Saskatchewan in the latter jjart of Jul\ for a ])reliminary 

 investigation of the Plains C'ree. The results (tf this investiga- 

 tion show tbat the Plains ( "rce are tall and iia\e a ci-pbalic index 



