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1262 New Hampshire Avenue.
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Washington, D.C.

March 23rd, 1898

Dear Miss Fletcher:

I intend preparing a paper on the "dirt lodge", as the Upper Missouri interpreters used to call it — the old dwelling of the Mandans, Omahas, Kansas etc. and I write to ask a little aid from you.

Can you tell me where I may find a good and accurate description of the lodge as constructed by the Omahas (I have descriptions for other tribes) or can you tell me where I may obtain a good photograph of one or more of their old lodges?

If I could obtain a photograph