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come as usual. Some few blotches of cloud will show themselves here and there in the sky, and there will be a little growling of thunder but there will be no rain. Such has been this weather for two months. The perspiration drips from my hand as I write. There will be another council today. What will be done is difficult to tell. I profit by hearing the discussion in a further acquaintance of the language and mode of expression so I attend.

Now about the question you ask. The seven animal skins connected with the Wa-xo-be correspond to the number of pipes, and there are seven. There are more gens & sub-gens but the skins and pipes remain seven. I have not yet found taboo excepting blood tabboo, but I will study that later. It may not be carried to 

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the extent as in the Omaha & Ponca. It would offend Cadman to return to him the $50.00  He regards the music in the opera as the common property of the three and as he used that he feels that the money should be shared equally.

Affly, [[signature]] F [[/signature]]

Pawhuska, OK.
June 17 - 1911.

My dear M,
Yours of the 13th came yesterday. The Indians are still holding councils about the rules and regulations to be formulated for the leasing of their mineral lands. The discussion is very interesting from the viewpoint of comparison between the reasoning prowess of the untutored and the educated. The untutored says "I will not" and gives no reasons, whether from lack of ability to express or whether from stupidity with a combination of stubborness