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of Manabus, with catalogue numbers of 184 songs"; "Songs of 

 Nitinat medicine men and miscellaneous Nitinat songs, with catalogue 

 numbers of Nitinat songs " ; " Songs of Indians living on the Fraser 

 and Thompson Rivers in British Columbia " ; " Winnebago songs 

 of the Winter Feast"; "Winnebago songs used in the treatment of 

 the sick"; and "Winnebago war songs, with catalogue numbers of 

 Winnebago songs." 



The paper on Makah customs includes a consideration of such 

 topics as the construction of houses and canoes, tools, rope, clothing, 

 fishing, cooking, tatooing, and wedding customs, also methods of 

 making observations of the sun, and beliefs concerning petitions for 

 supernatural help. 



Early in June, 1928, Mr. H. Hughes, of Ono, Russell County, Ky., 

 advised the Smithsonian Institution of certain Indian objects re- 

 cently exhumed from a cave in the bluffs bordering Wolf Creek, a 

 branch of Cumberland River. To examine these objects and the 

 scene of their discovery, Mr. Neil M. Judd, curator of American 

 archeology. United States National Museum, was directed to proceed 

 to Ono. 



Accompanied by Mr. Hughes, Mr. Judd called upon the three gen- 

 tlemen concerned with the discovery of the material in question, 

 examined the specimens, and later visited the shallow cave from 

 which they had been removed. The collection included parts of three 

 skeletons — two adults and an adolescent — a fragment of a buckskin 

 head band with fiber ropes attached, fragments of an olivella shell 

 necklace, a covered basket, and portions of two others. The basket, 

 certainly the most important of the several items, was woven of split 

 reeds; it is about 20 inches long, 8 inches wide, and 8 inches deep, 

 and was provided with a cover of approximately equal size that fitted 

 completely over the container. The basket is doubtless of Cherokee 

 origin; pottery fragments found in the cave tend to confirm this 

 deduction. 



Owing to the fact that the site of discovery is only a shallow shelter 

 in a thick stratum of disintegrating shale, it is truly remarkable that 

 these textile fragments should have been so well preserved. Layers 

 of burned clay and ash indicated frequent though intermittent use 

 of the shelter by Indian peoples. Fragments of corncobs, one small 

 red bean, gourd rind, and squash seeds were observed among the 

 shaly deposits covering the narrow floor space. 



During the .summer and early fall of 1927 archeological investiga- 

 tions for the Bureau of American Ethnology were continued by Mr. 

 H. W. Krieger, curator of ethnology. United States National Museum, 

 in the arid section of the Columbia Basin and in the lower valley 

 of Snake River. During the preceding year the region extending 



