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graphaphone rolls.  This will require intelligence [[?]] learning Indian history and affairs, and taste as well as judgement.  The photographer could probably be detailed from one of the Departments, so there would be ^[[only]] the salary & traveling expenses of the collecter, unless the person could be detailed from the office.  The manager & clerk might also be detailed, and possibly the Training school could furnish pupils well enough advanced to serve as exhibitors, there is time to train some of them for their duty.  The bulk of the expense would therefore be in the transportation of Indian scholars and speakers, & the material for the Dept.

I would suggest if the office is to furnish the room with desk, railings, etc., to have the work if possible, performed at some of the Training schools so that ^[[everything may]] be as much as possible, an Indian product.

There are many details which occur to me, but time forbids my writing of them.  The exhibit can be made in some such plan as this, full of interest &  attraction but care should be taken not to fall into the sort of mere curiosity shows, and portrayal of savage life.  The [[???]] live far beyond [[??]]showing a native culture, set in various conditions, transformed by civilizing property, but as to be received into one.

Respectfully

[[signature]] Alice C. Fletcher [[/signature]]
Spl. Ind. Agt.