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and the phonograph music records belonging to the archives. Mi,ss 

 M. W. Tucker typed the cards and stored the material, and also cata- 

 logued 250 cylinders of the Osage Indian songs and rituals. These 

 were verified by Doctor LaFlesclie with the use of the phonograph, 

 and are therefore authentic. Mr. Harrington has also turned over 

 his collection of 100 cylinders. Miss Densmore has, to date, a total of 

 1,697 cylinders listed and filed. 



There are now 3,079 manuscripts in the archives, and about 626 

 phonograph records, in addition to those of Miss Densmore. 



On May 18, 1928, Mr, Hewitt left Washington to continue his 

 studies among the Iroquoian and Chippewa tribes in Canada. He 

 visited the Chippewa at Garden River to revise certain cosmic texts 

 acquired in 1900 from Mr. John Miscogeon, of Bay View, Mich., and 

 from Mr. George Gabaoosa, of Garden River, in 1921. He also 

 visited the Huron remnant at Loretteville, near the city of Quebec, 

 Canada, to ascertain whether any knowledge of an institution re- 

 sembling closely the League of the Five Iroquois Tribes formerly 

 extant among the Hurons then dwelling about Lake Simcoe still 

 existed among this remnant of the Hurons. But no remembrance of 

 it was found. 



He also visited the Caughnawaga Mohawk living near Montreal, 

 where information regarding the league and its institutions was 

 sought, but he found only a jumble of ideas coming from the old 

 religious thought of the natives, from the so-called Handsome Lake 

 reformation, and from the hazy ideas instilled into them by the 

 missionaries. Here Mr. Hewitt also sought information tending to 

 identify the so-called Seven Nations of Canada, etc., who have re- 

 cently become a problem for the Canadian Department of Justice 

 and of the law department at Albany, N. Y. 



Mr. Hewitt's most fruitful field of research was among the Six 

 Nations of Iroquois living on the Grand River grant not far from 

 Brantford, Canada. Here he undertook the free translation of the 

 historical tradition of the founding of the League of the Five Iro- 

 quois Tribes in the closing decades of the sixteenth century, as related 

 by the Mohawk and the Onondaga, which embodies the farewell 

 address of Deganawide, the master mind in the work of establishing 

 that institution. He also revised the seven m}i;hs in native Onon- 

 daga texts relating to the gods of the air and the wind who control 

 diseases. 



He also was fortunate enough to secure the emblem of official 

 authority of the fire keeper of the council of the league to open and 

 to close the sessions of the council. 



Mr. Hewitt, as usual, has devoted much time to providing, througli 

 careful research, data for replies to the many correspondents of the 

 bureau. 



