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[[preprinted]] 1262 New Hampshire Avenue. [[/preprinted]] 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