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Pawhuska, Okla.
April 21, 1919.

My dear M,

Saturday I received your letter of the 16th but as I was on my way to Hominy with Bonnicastle I did not read it, there being no chance, but when I came home on last evening I read it and was glad to know you are getting on well. B. went to town as soon as we got home and his little girl who went with him handed me your letter of the 17th.  Your accounts of the cardinal is most interesting, but I am afraid the peculiar actions of his Eminence is due to his seeing his own reflection in the glass, in which he sees a rival. The peckings on the glass I think are attacks on his imaginary rival. You may remember I told you he did that two or three mornings before I left.

Mrs. Burlen's letter was also handed me at the same time and as she asks me to discuss the subject matter with you. I shall send you the letter with this. I wish you would make some kind of a reply to her for me, and tell her I will have a talk with Mr. Evans and see if he would be willing to do something toward the project. I think it would be a good plan to have her bring the Indians on and have them give their tableaus, if the money could be raised for their expenses. I fear I will not be home in time to see her when she comes to Washington.

Perhaps we had better give up the New York trip. I must get whatever Shon-ge-mon-in has. He is slow coming but if I leave without it he may die before I see him again. If I get him today I shall be lucky. The work of translating may take me a few days into next month and then I shall gladly turn homeward. What I have secured from Wa-tse-mon-in is very interesting but difficult of translation. Personal gentile names play a good part in these rituals. I shall have enough cylinders so you will not have to do anything about getting some. If I find that more rituals are available I shall telegraph the Bureau to send me some, but I think I have about exhausted the supply that is get-at-able. The people at the Wa-zha'-zhe division are difficult to get at, they will even decline to discuss the Non-hon-zhin-za.