Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Wa-/se Wa-tho To-ga, Song i, five stanzas; Song 2, fourstanzas. 4. Tsi-u-thu-gi-/e Wa-tho, Song i, twelve stanzas. The wi-gi-e and songs that have been recently secured fromXu-tha Wa-/o-i, with explanatory notes, have not yet been puttogether and typewritten. On account of other work in process, per-taining to the Osage rites, it will be some time before these can betaken up. While presenting this report, word has been received that Xu-thaWa-fo-i died in December, 1915. (See portrait, fig. 131.) A mem-ber of the Tse-do
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . Wa-/se Wa-tho To-ga, Song i, five stanzas; Song 2, fourstanzas. 4. Tsi-u-thu-gi-/e Wa-tho, Song i, twelve stanzas. The wi-gi-e and songs that have been recently secured fromXu-tha Wa-/o-i, with explanatory notes, have not yet been puttogether and typewritten. On account of other work in process, per-taining to the Osage rites, it will be some time before these can betaken up. While presenting this report, word has been received that Xu-thaWa-fo-i died in December, 1915. (See portrait, fig. 131.) A mem-ber of the Tse-do-ga P-dse gens informed Mr. La Flesche thatthe portion of the tribal rites committed to his gens had died withXu-tha Wa-to-i. This would have been true but for the for-tunate circumstance that last September all that the old man knew of NO. 3 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I915 IO9 the rites belonging to his gens was secured. This material, togetherwith a paraphrase of one of the wi-gi-e obtained from Pa-thi°-wa-we-xta in 1912, makes possible a fair presentation of the Fig. 131.—Portrait of Xu-tha Wa-to-i, an Osage. ETHNOLOGICAL WORK AMONG THE NATCHEZ. CREEK, ANDCHICKASAW INDIANS Dr. John R. Swanton was in the field for about two months during1915, from toward the end of September until well after the middleof November. The first two weeks and the last week were devotedto work among the few remaining Natchez Indians and the recording no SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66
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