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be published separately. If I succeed in getting the full non-hon-zhin-ga this year which I may, it might be well to publish it by itself. I think it will make a good sized volume. Until I get it all I cannot tell whether it would be worth publishing separately. I hate to split the work in two. The Omaha book is so satisfactory and I want to make the Osage work as complete as the Omaha.

It is so hot here that I do not dare to go to the houses of the Indians to work as I have had to do when it was cooler so I shall have to put in the time in typewriting the material ready to be typewritten, and I will work at it leisurely. These wa-xo-be rites are going to be exceptionally interesting. The personal tribal names with their meaning should be published with the rites if published separately as they are a