Including copy of letter. Hewitt to Jesse Walter Fewkes, criticizing "The Ritualistic Origin Myth of the White Buffalo Dance of the Fox Indians", April 19, 1913; a draft of a letter to Alanson Skinner regarding Michelsonʹs review of his Observations on the Ethnology of the Sauk Indiana"; and some notes.
Preface to Truman Michelson, "The Mythical Origin of the Fox Indians," Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 40, Washington, D.C., 1925, page 27 refers to Kiyana as writer of the texts. Reference to place and date is from Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 33, page 24 and Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 34, page 15.
Contains Esoteric meaning of songs of major and minor packs, phonetic texts (1916); Fox ethnology, mostly published; diagram, etc. of White Buffalo Dance; published.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2073
Local Note:
See 40th AR; see also File Number 2560-63 and 2565 to 69.