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ARCHIVES OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
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^[[2027]]

Bloomfield, New Jersey.
April 24, 1911.


Prof. Frederick W. Hodge,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:

This morning I came upon a sheet presenting an inflection of the Pawnee verb tur-a-pi-ri-hu, i.e. [[underlined]] I do it [[/underlined]]. Some of the inflected forms may perplex you for a time; but if care is taken in the comparing of the inflected terms they soon become quite easy. You are at liberty to use the sheet so long as you desire, if only it is in due time returned.

With this I enclose for you a photograph of the first chief of the Pawnee tribe. He was a fine true man in every way, and was highly esteemed by the entire tribe, especially by his own clan. His rule was mild and efficient at all times, especially a true friend and willing helper of my father at all times. I am still an acknowledged debtor to him, even though he has been long since numbered with the dead.

As to the books that you sent some time agone, I have made endeavor to place them, at least in part