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the government of tlie Republic of Honduras. It was also materially 

 aided by the United Fruit Company, from whose employees it received 

 unlimited hospitality. Without these much appreciated sources of 

 cooperation its scientific results would have been much curtailed. 



Dr. Julian H. Steward was appointed as associate anthropologist 

 in the Bureau, effective October 21, 1935. During September 1935, 

 prior to reporting to Washington, Dr. Steward traveled to Pendleton, 

 Oreg., for the purpose of making a selection of 200 negatives of ethno- 

 logical subjects taken by the late Maj. Lee Morehouse. These were 

 purchased by the Bureau from Mrs. L. L. Cornelison, his daughter. 

 From November 16 to December 10, 1935, Dr. Steward was engaged in 

 conducting a W. P. A. archeological project in the vicinity of Miami, 

 Fla. During this time he supervised the excavation of the large 

 mound at Miami Beach and began work on a smaller mound several 

 miles northwest of the city of Miami. Because of Dr. Strong's de- 

 parture for Honduras, when Dr. Steward returned to Washington he 

 was delegated to continue the cooperative work between the Bureau of 

 Indian Affairs and the Bureau of American Etlmology previously 

 conducted by Dr. Strong. In connection with these duties Dr. 

 Steward made an extended trip from March 7 to April 15, 1936, in 

 the interest of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. On June 19 he left 

 Washington for the purpose of continuing his field work among the 

 Shoshoni, Bannock, and Gosiute Indians of Utah, Nevada, and Idaho. 

 During the winter and spring Dr. Steward prepared for publication a 

 series of trait lists collected from the Shoshoni Indians of Nevada 

 during the summer of 1935. From other material collected at the 

 same time he completed two articles entitled "Shoshoni Polyandry" 

 and "Panatubiji, a Biography of an Owens Valley Paiute." In addi- 

 tion. Dr. Steward completed for publication in the Smithsonian 

 Annual Report an article entitled "Indian Petroglyphs of the United 

 States." 



J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist, completed a detailed study of the ap- 

 proximate position and territorial habitat of the northern Iroquoian 

 tribes and of the contiguous Algonquian peoples as they were at the 

 time these groups were first visited by the early explorers. Mr. 

 Hewitt also made a historical study for the purpose of showing the 

 marked influence of the principles and aims of the League of the Five 

 Iroquois Tribes as founded by Deganawida in the early sixteenth 

 century on those of the Constitution of the United States. 



Mr. Hewitt had previously recorded from the late Chief J. A. 

 Gibson two Onondaga versions of what is fundamentally a single 

 ritual, namely, the Requickening Address. He made a new transla- 

 tion of these, having first revised both texts so that there should be 

 no material differences in the meaning of the two. He also made a 

 careful revision of the Onondaga texts and laws relating to the posi- 



