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to interview a group of visiting Zuili Indians. Songs were obtained 

 from Falling Star, an Indian bom in Zuni, who had lived in the 

 pueblo most of his life and taken part in the dances. His father 

 also was a singer and dancer. Falling Star recorded 17 songs, 15 

 of which were transcribed and submitted to the Bureau. These are 

 chiefly songs of lay-participants in the Kain Dance and the songs 

 connected with grinding corn for household use. 



Additional data on the peyote cult among the Winnebago were 

 obtained from a former informant and incorporated in the manuscript 

 on that tribe. 



In October Miss Densmore went to Washington for consultation 

 on manuscripts awaiting publication. During the winter she tran- 

 scribed records of 71 Seminole songs, completing the transcriptions 

 of recordings made in that tribe during the seasons of 1931, 1932, and 

 1933. It is expected that the book on Seminole music, containing 

 245 songs, will be completed in the near future. 



A paper on A Search for Songs Among the Chitimacha Indians 

 in Louisiana, submitted in 1933, was rewritten, amplified, and pre- 

 pared for publication. The Chitimacha is the only tribe visited by 

 Miss Densmore in which all the songs have been forgotten. Musical 

 customs were remembered, and several legends were related in which 

 songs were formerly sung. 



In May 1941 Miss Densmore read a paper on The Native Art of 

 the Chippewa before the Central States Branch of the American 

 Anthropological Association at the Annual meeting held in 

 Minneapolis. 



At the close of the fiscal year Miss Densmore was in Nebraska, her 

 special interest being a search for songs that were recorded phono- 

 graphically by Miss Alice C. Fletcher in the decade prior to 1893 

 and published in that year by the Peabody Museum of American 

 Archaeology and Ethnology. If Indians can be found who remem- 

 ber these songs, they will be recorded again. A comparison of the 

 two recordings will show the degree of accuracy with which the 

 songs have been transmitted, and will be important to the subject 

 of Indian music. 



The entire collection of recordings of Indian songs submitted to 

 the Bureau by Miss Densmore has been transferred to the National 

 Archives for permanent preservation. These recordings were made 

 and submitted during the period from 1907 to 1940, all having been 

 cataloged and transcribed in musical notation. Many hundreds of 

 other recordings have been made, studied, and retained by Miss 

 Densmore but not transcribed. Recordings submitted after 1940 



