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of the arrangements of the funds of the Museum so that it can be bought he would let me know. I am keeping it but I would like to know before I come home so that I can pay the owner but I do not quite like to write too much about it. I am going ahead with this other wa-xo-be and the loom although I am not sure the museum can buy them or not. I can dispose of them but I would like to see them put with my Osage collection, which is a very valuable one. I would give a good deal to get the old woman to recite the weaving ritual but she is shy about it. Any way I shall try to get her to do it. I have been shaving old records. I have transcribed nearly all the rituals and so I am shaving these records to have them ready for Charley Wa-re-she who promises to give me the last degree of the Non-hon-zhiu-ga. It all depends on him when I can get back home. He said he would give the ritual at the December payment and I am afraid he is going to stick to that altho. I can do the work now. I sent word to him that I would like to see him right away but I fear superstition